Louis Althusser’s renowned short text Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of ...

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French philosopher Althusser's memoirs, written during his stay in a mental hospital after murdering his wife, offer to explain the roots of his madness. Continue reading » French Marxist philosopher ...

Althusser provides frame work in Marxian sense believing that State becomes oppressive with the use of its powerful apparatuses. According to him there are two major types of state apparatuses. First ...

This is the centenary year of Althusser, a leading the oritition among communist intellectuals of Europe The bicentenary of Karl Marx in 2018 has overshadowed another important event this year i.e.

A Point of Heresy in Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's Antithetic Readings of Capital in the Early 60's ...

Television documentary about Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990), one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century.

Hence Althusser’s frequent allusions to a ‘theoretical’ or ‘philosophical’ conjuncture.¹ More generally, there is question of conjuncture when it comes to thinking about ‘history in the present’ that ...