Michael Sprinker (8 February 1950 in

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– 12 August 1999) was a

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known for his writings on

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and

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, among others, as well as for his editorial work at

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, the ''

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'' and '' The Minnesota Review''. 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, Fred Pfeil 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

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"Legacies of Michael Sprinker"
at '' The Minnesota Review''

References

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