He also discusses the work of other French philosophers, such as Henri Lefebvre, Alexandre Kojève, Georges Politzer, Jean Hyppolite, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and René Maublanc, and the relationship between Marxism and epistemology.

[5] It was also reviewed by Chamsy el-Ojeili in Thesis Eleven and the economist Richard D. Wolff in Science & Society.

[6][7] In Borderlands E-Journal: New Spaces in the Humanities, David McInerney reviewed the book and interviewed Lewis about it.

[8][9] Sharp considered the book a welcome addition to the literature on Althusser, noting that Lewis translated documents from the French Communist Party "that would otherwise be entirely unavailable."

He also complimented Lewis for his treatment of Lefebvre and Merleau-Ponty, crediting him with showing "their inadequacy to theorise social totality and their distance from Marx’s original formulations."