Editing Pierre Macherey (section)

== Scholarly work ==
Macherey is known for his contribution to ''Reading Capital'' and his influential work in Marxist literary criticism. Since October 2000, he has been engaged in a group project entitled "La ''Philosophie au sens large''" (Philosophy in the grand sense), which has been hosted on the academic web platform Hypotheses.org since 2009. The project collects essays, presentations, and longer form studies that highlight the interrelation between philosophy and the literary, political, artistic, and social scientific thought that conditions it. The project is described as an attempt to reformulate the problematic of practice.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://philolarge.hypotheses.org/a-propos|title=À propos|newspaper=La philosophie au sens large|access-date=2016-12-06}}</ref> In this context, Macherey has described philosophy in the 'grand sense' as " a conjunctural practice, which has no other means of surpassing the limits imposed by the conjunctures with which it is confronted other than to reflect on them and to elucidate their conditions in such a way as to eventually be able to intervene with regard to them and, therefore, to contribute to the transformation or evolution of these conjunctures."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koettlitz|first=Olivier|date=2011-12-01|title=Entretien avec Pierre Macherey|url=http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=PHOIR_020_0007|journal=Le Philosophoire|language=fr|issue=20|pages=7–20|issn=1283-7091}}</ref>