"Redefined the concept of ideology." -Alice Kaplan, Los Angeles Review of Books
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught Philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.
‘The elegant theorist, the man who redefined the concept
of
“ideology”’—Alice Kaplan, Los Angeles Review of Books
‘One of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth
century … nothing short of electric. His renewal of
Marxism represented a liberation for a younger
generation’ —Radical Philosophy
"One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his
capacity to inspire the intelligent young."—Eric Hobsbawm
"Louis Althusser influenced so many discourses, actions and
existences by the radiant and provocative force of his
thought."—Jacques Derrida
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