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Informationen zum Autor Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999. Aijaz Ahmad is a renowned cultural theorist who has taught in several western and Indian universities. A frequent contributor to Frontline magazine, he currently lives in New Delhi. Antonio Negri (1933-2023) taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he was also a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He was the author of over thirty books, including Political Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza, and Time for Revolution , and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Labor of Dionysus, Empire and Multitude . Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity , The Modernist Papers , Archaeologies of the Future , Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic , The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital. Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. English translations of his work include Given Time , Memories of the Blind , Specters of Marx, The Politics of Friendship, and The Gift of Death . Pierre Macherey is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille III. Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology ; The Function of Criticism ; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger ; Against the Grain ; Walter Benjamin ; and Criticism and Ideology , all from Verso. Warren Montag is Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries and the Unthinkable Swift . Klappentext Major theorists discuss the renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida's most political and controversial work - with a response by Derrida himself. Zusammenfassung Discusses Derrida's political work and Derrida responds. ...
