Michael Sprinker (8 February 1950 in

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– 12 August 1999) was a literary critic known for his writings on Louis Althusser,

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and Bertolt Brecht, among others, as well as for his editorial work at

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''. With Mike Davis, Sprinker co-founded Verso's Haymarket series and was said to have guided it until his death. He also taught at

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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 Aijaz Ahmad ( hi, ऐजाज़ अहमद, ur, اعجاز احمد; 1941 – 9 March 2022) was an Indian-born American Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political commentator. He was the Chancellor's Professor at the University ...

Fred Pfeil John Frederick Pfeil (1949–2005) was an American literary critic and novelist. Pfeil (pronounced "file") was born September 21 in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania. He earned an undergraduate degree at Amherst College in 1971 and an M.A. at Stanford Uni ...

and Modhumita Roy () *Jacques Derrida: ''Politique et amitié : Entretiens avec Michael Sprinker sur Marx et Althusser'', Paris: Editions Galilée, 2011,

As editor

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

External links

"Committed to the End: Michael Sprinker: 1950-1999"
by Alan M. Wald
"Legacies of Michael Sprinker"
at ''

References

1950 births 1999 deaths Oregon State University faculty Marxist writers {{US-academic-bio-stub