New book on Althusser from the editors of Rethinking Marxism

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

This message was forwarded to me by Rick Wolff.  I have read the paper by
Warren Montag already and it was very interesting (and would interest those
on the l*st interested in the force/consent couplet in Gramsci (Bryan, is
this you?):


>Another AESA/RM project has come to fruition!
>
>POSTMODERN MATERIALISM AND THE FUTURE OF MARXIST THEORY: ESSAYS IN THE
>ALTHUSSERIAN TRADITION, edited by Antonio Callari and David Ruccio, has
>just been published by Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New
>England.
>
>This is a project we started on the RM Editorial Board some years ago to
>honor Althusser after his death in 1990. We invited all AESA members and
>lots of folks from around the world to contribute essays that took up
>Althusser's theoretical and political legacy in order to chart some of the
>future directions of Marxist theory. The task became one of elaborating
>what we refer to, somewhat provocatively, as a "Postmodern Materialism."
>
>The book contains essays by AESA members Stephen Cullenberg, Richard Wolff,
>Stephen Resnick, Bruce Roberts, Julie Graham, Katherine Gibson, Richard
>McIntyre, and Jonathan Diskin--plus an introduction by the two editors.
>There are also essays by such noted Althusserians (and friends of AESA) as
>Antonio Negri, Grahame Lock, Warren Montag, Etienne Balibar, Emmanuel
>Terray, AnnMarie Wolpe, Alain Lipietz, and Gregory Elliott. Quite a cast of
>characters!
>
>The book is currently available from University Press of New England, 23
>South Main St., Hanover, NH 03744. Orders: 1/800/421-1561. $49.50 cloth,
>$19.95 paper.
>
>Please feel free to circulate this message to other l*sts. And, if anyone
>is so inclined, it's always possible to write a review for one of the
>journals out there. . .
>
>Best regards,
>
>Antonio and David
>(2 brothers--not!)
>


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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