Peter Hallward - Concept and Form 2 Volume Set

This two-volume edition first published by Verso 2013

Concept and Form, Volume 1 first published by Verso 2012
In the Collection Verso 2012
translation Ccile Malaspina and Peter Hallward
translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Peter Hallward
translation Jacqueline Rose
translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Knox Peden
translation Peter Hallward and Knox Peden
translation Zachary Luke Fraser with Ray Brassier
translation Robin Mackay with Ray Brassier
translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Steven Corcoran
were reprinted in Jacques-Alain Miller, Un Dbut dans la vie (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), and are translated with kind permission of Gallimard.

Introduction Peter Hallward 2012
Preface and editorial notes Peter Hallward and Knox Peden

Concept and Form, Volume 2 first published by Verso 2012
In the Collection Verso 2012

In the interviews The interviewees 2012
In the Collection Verso 2012
Introduction Knox Peden 2012
translation Ccile Malaspina, revised by Peter Hallward
translation Ccile Malaspina
Preface and editorial notes Peter Hallward and Knox Peden
translation Steven Corcoran
translation Tzuchien Tho

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v3.1

First published by Verso 2012
In the Collection Verso 2012
Chapters translation Ccile Malaspina and Peter Hallward
Chapters translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Peter Hallward
Chapter translation Jacqueline Rose
Chapters translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Knox Peden
Chapters translation Peter Hallward and Knox Peden
Chapter translation Zachary Luke Fraser with Ray Brassier
Chapter translation Robin Mackay with Ray Brassier
Chapter translation Christian Kerslake, revised by Steven Corcoran
Chapters were reprinted in Jacques-Alain Miller, Un Dbut dans la vie (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), and are translated with kind permission of Gallimard.

Introduction Peter Hallward 2012
Preface and editorial notes Peter Hallward and Knox Peden

All rights reserved

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

Verso
UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG
US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201
www.versobooks.com

Verso is the imprint of New Left Books

eISBN: 978-1-84467-930-0

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

v3.1

Concept and Form is a two-volume work dealing with the 1960s French philosophy journal the Cahiers pour lAnalyse. Volume One is made up of English translations of some of the most important texts published in the journal. The introduction to Volume One tries to reconstruct the general context in which the journal was produced, and sketches the main intellectual and political influences that shaped its work. Volume Two collects newly commissioned essays on the journal and interviews with people who were either members of the editorial board or associated with its broader theoretical project. The introduction to Volume Two situates the journal in the context of twentieth-century French rationalism and considers how its commitment to conceptual analysis shaped its distinctive approach to Marxism and psychoanalysis.

These two printed books are complemented by an open-access electronic edition of the Cahiers, produced by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and hosted by Kingston University London, at cahiers.kingston.ac.uk. The Concept and Form website provides the original French texts in both html and facsimile pdf versions, substantial synopses of each article, discussions of the most significant concepts at issue in the journal, and brief entries on the main people involved with it, as well as full-length French versions of the interviews abbreviated and translated in Volume Two. The materials in these two printed volumes are also included on the website, and posted as pdfs on the Verso website. The websites search box and lists of concepts and names may serve to some extent as a substitute index for the books.

All the articles published in the Cahiers receive fairly thorough consideration in the Concept and Form website, but here space constraints have obliged us to include only those articles that seem to carry the most far-reaching theoretical implications (which serves to favour pieces by Miller, Badiou, Regnault and Milner) and that, at least in most cases, have not already been translated and published elsewhere (which serves to exclude articles by Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray, Leclaire, and Pcheux). As anyone familiar with the original French texts can attest, these articles pose some formidable translation problems, and our attempts to solve them have drawn on a good deal of prolonged collaborative work; we are very grateful to the translators and to some of our bilingual friends for their help, in particular Patrice Maniglier, Alberto Toscano, Craig Moyes, Sinad Rushe, Sebastian Budgen, Leslie Barnes, Peter Cryle, and Eric Hazan. Needless to say we assume responsibility for any errors that remain.

This project was made possible by a research grant awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (20062009). We would like to thank Christian Kerslake for all the work he did on the website and for preparing some of the translations, Ray Brassier for helping to revise material for the website and the book, and all the colleagues at the CRMEP who helped with various aspects of the project. Were especially grateful to Nick Balstone, Karl Inglis and Ali Kazemi for their technical work on the website, and to all those readers of the site who have helped to improve it.

Peter Hallward and Knox Peden

CF1, CF2

Concept and Form, Volume 1 or 2.

CpA

Cahiers pour lAnalyse. A reference of the form CpA 6.2:36 is to page 36 of the second article in the sixth volume of the Cahiers, as listed in its table of contents (online at cahiers.kingston.ac.uk, and appended to this volume). Where an English translation for an article is available, inclusion of the English page number follows the French, after a forward slash. Numbers inside square brackets, set in bold type, refer to the original French pagination.

tm

Translation modified.

TN

Translators note.

WORKS BY LOUIS ALTHUSSER

ESC

Essays in Self-Criticism