Althusser's Lesson

Jacques Rancière''s first major work, Althusser''s Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière''s analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser''s Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explai...