Editing Pierre Macherey

{{Short description|French philosopher (born 1938)}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2016}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|name=Pierre Macherey
|birth_date={{birth-date and age|17 February 1938}}
|birth_place=[[Belfort]], [[Third French Republic|France]]
|notable_works=A Theory of Literary Production
|influences=[[Karl Marx]]{{•}} [[Baruch Spinoza]]{{•}} [[Louis Althusser]]{{•}} [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]
|era=[[Contemporary philosophy]]
|region=[[Western philosophy]]
|school_tradition=[[Continental philosophy]]<br>[[Structural Marxism]]
}}

'''Pierre Macherey''' ({{IPA|fr|maʃərɛ|lang}}; born 17 February 1938) is a French [[Marxist]] [[philosopher]] and [[literary critic]] at the [[University of Lille Nord de France]].  A former student of [[Louis Althusser]] and collaborator on the influential volume ''[[Reading Capital]]'', Macherey is a central figure in the development of French [[post-structuralism]] and [[Marxism]].  His work is influential in [[literary theory]] and [[Continental philosophy]] in Europe (including Britain) though it is generally little read in the United States.

== 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>

==Works==

Only a partial selection of Macherey's work has been translated into English.

* [https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/the-productive-subject/ "The Productive Subject"], Viewpoint Magazine 5 (October 2015)
* ''[[Reading Capital]]'', (1965 - with [[Louis Althusser]], [[Étienne Balibar]] and [[Jacques Rancière]])
* ''Hegel ou Spinoza'', Maspéro, 1977 (reed. La Découverte, 2004)
* ''A Theory of Literary Production'' (1978): {{ISBN|0-415-04613-0}}
* ''Hegel et la société'', [[University Presses of France|PUF]], (1984)
* ''The Object of Literature'' (1995): {{ISBN|0-521-47678-X}}
* ''In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays'' (1998 ed. [[Warren Montag]]): {{ISBN|1-85984-949-0}}
* "Hegel or Spinoza", University of Minnesota Press (Jan 2012). Translator, Susan M. Ruddick

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060712095001/http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/sitespersonnels/macherey/accueilmacherey.html Pierre Macherey's personal site]
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2851 Macherey from the Literary Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.generation-online.org/p/pmacherey.htm Notes from generation-online.org]

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