Editing Michael Sprinker

{{Short description|American academic (1950–1999)}}
'''Michael Sprinker''' (8 February 1950 in [[Elgin, Illinois]] – 12 August 1999) was a [[Literary criticism|literary critic]] known for his writings on [[Louis Althusser]], [[Walter Benjamin]] and [[Bertolt Brecht]], among others, as well as for his editorial work at [[Verso]], [[Cambridge University Press]], the ''[[New Left Review]]'' and ''[[The Minnesota Review]]''.  With Mike Davis, Sprinker co-founded Verso's Haymarket series and was said to have guided it until his death.<ref> https://www.versobooks.com/authors/324-michael-sprinker</ref> He also taught at [[Oregon State University]]<ref>[http://clogic.eserver.org/3-1&2/wald.html Untitled Document<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and the [[Stony Brook University|State University of New York at Stony Brook]]{{Reference needed|date=December 2018}}.

==Bibliography==
* ''"A Counterpoint of Dissonance": The Aesthetics and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins'' (Johns Hopkins UP, 1980)
* ''History and Ideology in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic'' (Cambridge UP, 1994)
* ''Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism'' (Verso, 1987)
* ''A Singular Voice: Collected Writings of Michael Sprinker'' ed. [[Aijaz Ahmad]], [[Fred Pfeil]] and [[Modhumita Roy]] ({{ISBN|1-85984-313-1}})
*Jacques Derrida: ''Politique et amitié : Entretiens avec Michael Sprinker sur Marx et Althusser'', Paris: Editions Galilée, 2011, {{ISBN|2-7186-0841-2}}

===As editor===
* ''The Althusserian Legacy''
* ''Edward Said: A Critical Reader''
* ''Ghostly Demarcations''

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050309195126/http://www.eserver.org/clogic/3-1%262/wald.html "Committed to the End: Michael Sprinker: 1950-1999"] by [[Alan M. Wald]]
* [http://www.theminnesotareview.org/ns58/index.html "Legacies of Michael Sprinker"] at ''[[The Minnesota Review]]''

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