Acknowledgements
This book could not have been written without the steady support and encouragement of Sebastian Budgen, Danny Hayward, and the rest of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board. Concrete material support was provided by Skidmore College, Lili Zeller and Jacques Amsellem, as well as the équipe at the Institut Mémoires de lââ¯Edition Contemporaine. I am likewise grateful to the editors and reviewers at the VersoBlog, Décalages, International Studies in Philosophy and The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, where versions of this material first appeared as:
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Lewis, William S. 2016, âAlthusserâs Scientism and Aleatory Materialismâ, Décalages, 2 (1).
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