"First published as Sur la reproduction, [copyright] Presses Universitaires de France 1995." ‘The elegant theorist, the man who redefined the concept of
“ideology”’—Alice Kaplan, Los Angeles Review of Books

‘One of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century … nothing short of electric. His renewal of Marxism represented a liberation for a younger generation’ —Radical Philosophy

"One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young."—Eric Hobsbawm

"Louis Althusser influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought."—Jacques Derrida