Louis Althusser (1918-1990) taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital; Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel. Etienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated ... Read morestudent of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Spinoza and Politics, The Philosophy of Marx and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital. He is a Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine. Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator. Pierre Macherey is a French Marxist literary critic at Universite 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. Roger Establet is a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet is an emeritus professor at University of Provence. Show Less