The Future Lasts a Long Time

In this astonishing, revelatory autobiography, Louis Althusser, one of the most influential French thinkers of the sixties and seventies, along with Sartre, Barthes, Foucault and Lacan, admits to his fears of exposure as an intellectual fraud; he analyses his fraught, unconventional relationship with his wife Helene and reveals a history of severe identity crisis and mental illness.