"Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970)
Spouse
Hélène Rytmann (m. c. 1975; d. 1980)
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Western Marxism Structural Marxism
Institutions
École Normale Supérieure
Notable students
Jean-Luc Marion[2]
Main interests
Politics
economics
ideology
Notable ideas
Epistemological break of Young Marx
Overdetermination
Ideological state apparatuses
Interpellation
Aleatory materialism
Determination-in-the-last-instance
"Individuals are always-already subjects"[1]
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Louis Pierre Althusser (UK: /ˌæltʊˈsɛər/, US: /ˌɑːltuːˈsɛər/;[4]French:[altysɛʁ]; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser was a long-time member and sometimes a strong critic of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical foundations of Marxism. These included both the influence of empiricism on Marxist theory, and humanist and reformist socialist orientations which manifested as divisions in the European communist parties, as well as the problem of the cult of personality and of ideology. Althusser is commonly referred to as a structural Marxist, although his relationship to other schools of French structuralism is not a simple affiliation and he was critical of many aspects of structuralism. He later described himself as a social anarchist.[5]
Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.
^"Introduction to Louis Althusser; Module on Ideology".
^Horner, Robyn (2005). Jean-Luc Marion: a Theo-Logical Introduction. Burlington: Ashgate. p. 3.
^Dunn, Hopeton S. (2014). "A Tribute to Stuart Hall". Critical Arts. 28 (4): 758. doi:10.1080/02560046.2014.929228. ISSN 1992-6049. S2CID 144415843.
^Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
^"The Crisis of Marxism: An interview with Louis Althusser".
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Louis Pierre Althusser (UK: /ˌæltʊˈsɛər/, US: /ˌɑːltuːˈsɛər/; French: [altysɛʁ]; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who...
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proletariat and their reprimand of the bourgeoisie. Marxist theorist LouisAlthusser, for example, defined the philosophy as "class struggle in theory"...
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and Karl Korsch against Russian Machism, and by LouisAlthusser, and by E. P. Thompson against Althusser. Wark wrote that the allegation entailed a dismissal...
second, and was admitted in 1952. On his first day at ENS, Derrida met LouisAlthusser, with whom he became friends. A professor of his, Jan Czarnecki, was...
reconcile Marxist and post-Marxist perspectives, was largely borrowed from LouisAlthusser. The book opens with one of Jameson's most famous bons mots, 'Always...
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the pages of the New Left Review, in the mode of the French critic LouisAlthusser. In the 1960s, he became involved with the left-wing Catholic group...
physiological effect of different climates. From a sociological perspective, LouisAlthusser, in his analysis of Montesquieu's revolution in method, alluded to...
revisionism, proposed an intellectual return to the Marxist method. So did LouisAlthusser, who later defined Marxism and psychoanalysis as "conflictual sciences"...
in 1938 by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, and later used by LouisAlthusser. Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological...
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