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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
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Reading Capital
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Machiavelli and Us
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Essays on Ideology
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For Marx
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- Legal name: Louis Althusser
- Birthdate: October 16, 1918
- Birthplace: Birmendreïs, Algeria
- Nationality: French
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/
- Genres: philosophy, politics, ideology, economics, Marxist theory, autobiography, structuralism
- Date of death: October 22, 1990 (aged 72)
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Louis Pierre Althusser was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser was a longtime member – although sometimes also a strong critic – of the French Communist Party. 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 itself.
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 is critical of many aspects of structuralism.
Althusser's later years were marked by a pronounced fall from grace after he strangled his wife to death.
Althusser was a longtime member – although sometimes also a strong critic – of the French Communist Party. 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 itself.
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 is critical of many aspects of structuralism.
Althusser's later years were marked by a pronounced fall from grace after he strangled his wife to death.
