Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Why Read Althusser Today?  1

Part I. Structure  

1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism  15

2. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey  23

3. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics  36

4. Lévi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects  53

5. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze  73

Part II. Subject  

6. Marxism and Humanism  103

7. Althusser and Lacan: Toward of Genealogy of the Concept of Interpellation  118

8. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection  141

Part III. Origin/End  

9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness?  173

10. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser  190

Afterword  209

Notes  213

Bibliography  231

Index  243

"Warren Montag's reconstruction of the Althusserian journey into the hazardous territories of politics and philosophy gives us a fascinating account of the Marxist philosopher's trajectory, while illuminating his interactions with the major works of 'French theory.' There is no equivalent to Montag's interpretation, which rectifies many conventional notions and combines empathy with absolute mastery of the archive and the conceptual problems at stake. But Althusser and His Contemporaries is also a philosophical creation in its own right, delineating what I am tempted to call a negative eschatology: no doubt one of Althusser's most exciting 'aleatory' heritages."—Étienne Balibar, coauthor of Reading Capital

"Like no one else can, Warren Montag brings to life in this wonderful book the adventure of Althusser's thought in all its excitement and brilliance."—Michael Hardt, coauthor of Declaration

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