Louis Althusser

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born

October 16, 1918 in Birmendreïs, Algeria

died

October 22, 1990

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/althusser/

genre

Philosophy, Social Sciences, Politics

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Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in the 1960s about Marxist philosophy were discussed and debated worldwide. Due to apparent reversals in his theoretical positions, to the ill-fated facts of his life, and to the historical fortunes of Marxism in the late twentieth century, this intense interest in Althusser's reading of Marx did not survive the 1970s. Despite the comparative indifference shown to his work as a whole after these events, the theory of ideology Althusser developed within it has been broadly deployed in the social science...more

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	Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser, Fredric Jameson 3.97 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions	My rating:
	For Marx 3.88 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions	My rating:
	On Ideology 4.06 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Reading Capital by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar 4.00 avg rating — 123 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir by Louis Althusser, Yann Moulier Boutang, Olivier Corpet 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 by Louis Althusser, Oliver Corpet (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings by Louis Althusser, G.M. Goshgarian (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx by Louis Althusser, Ben Brewster (Translator) 3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Machiavelli and Us 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”
― Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists & Other Essays

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“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”
― Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

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“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”
― Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism

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