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| | Louis Althusser |
 | | Althusser died of a heart attack on October 22, 1990. | | | In 1939 he was admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, but the war interrupted his studies, and he was called up in September. | | | He was declared unfit to stand trial and institutionalized until 1983. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/althusse.htm
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| | Postmodern Thought |
| | Taccheri Louis Althusser's " Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
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| | Althusser murdered his wife in 1980, and was confined to an asylum till his death in 1990. | | | Louis Althusser and his student Michel Foucault were also regarded as representatives of this current. | | | In 1945 the PCF won some 25 percent of the vote in the first post-War election, and in 1946 took part in the Fourth Republic’s first government. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/a/l.htm
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| | this project is called BICYCLE » Louis Althusser |
| | The authorities attributed Althusser’s ravings to his distraught state of mind. | | | He strangled his wife as part of his project to destroy all evidence of his own existence, his work, his recognition, his position and himself. | | | All his life, Althusser mourned his own death brought about by his mother for whom he could not be accepted as the living child he was. |
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http://www.deluvor.com/project/2004/12/08/louis-althusser
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| | New Statesman - The future lasts a long time |
| | What is compelling about Althusser's story is not merely his private affairs, but the ironic overlaps between his ideas and experience. | | | Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918, and led a star-crossed life from birth onwards. | | | This inclination deepened in the closing years of the war after the defining encounter of his life: his meeting with his future wife Helene Legotien. |
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http://www.newstatesman.com/200206170034
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| | miserable althusser@hereinstead.com |
| | By elaborating a doctrine in which human volition and human action counted for nought, in which theoretical speculation was the supreme practice, Althusser could compensate for a life of gloomy, introspective inaction by asserting and legitimizing his existence in the arena of the text. | | | Althusser's work and his life, with his drugs, his analysts, his self-pity, his illusions and his moods, take on a curiously hermetic quality. | | | This memoir is warped and curdled by his morbid self- pity, by his insecurity and the repeated invocation of Lacanian cliches to account for his troubles. |
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http://www.hereinstead.com/sys-tmpl/miserablealthusser
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| | This is Althusser at the height of his powers, really, confidently asserting marxist science against the forces that were already at work in France which threatened to end its monopoly for ever. | | | For Althusser, of course, these factions are social classes, and they determine or constitute both of the mythical polls -- the General Will and the individual will. | | | In the last appended section, Althusser admits that his analysis is too "abstract", that the function of completing reproduction depends on a successful class struggle by the r.c. |
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http://www.arasite.org/nalt2.htm
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| | English 571:Taccheri on Althusser |
| | Umberto Taccheri on Louis Althusser's " Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" | | | In "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" Althusser expresses the basis of his critical production. | | | Explicitly taking the baton from Marx, Althusser sets up to amplify his definition of the State. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Courses/taccheri2.html
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| | On Marxism, by Louis Althusser |
| | Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. | | | Source:Louis Althusser, Early Writings, The Spectre of Hegel; |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/works/onmarx/althusse.htm
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| | Althusser - a Critique : Competing Interpellations |
| | The latter co-exists with the former, very much as a black figure defines its white background. | | | This is a structured articulation of a number of contradictions and determinations (between the practices). | | | It is this cyclical nature of Althusser's teachings (ideologies interpellate in order to be able to interpellate) and his dogmatic approach (ideologies never fail) which doomed his otherwise brilliant observations to oblivion. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6297/althusser.html
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| | Louis Althusser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Following the death of his father, Althusser moved from Algiers with his mother and younger sister to Marseilles, where he spent the rest of his childhood. | | | Althusser alleged that it was this man for whom his mother was intended and that she had married his father only because of the brother's demise, and that his mother treated his namesake, her son, as a substitute, to which he also attributes deep psychological damage. | | | With the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, Nikita Kruschev began the process of "de-Stalinisation". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser
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| | NMEDIAC : Althusser, Ideology, and Theoretical Foundations: Theory and Communication |
| | In 1980, Althusser murdered his wife, Hélène Rytmann, and was subsequently confined to a psychiatric institution until his death in 1990 (Benton, 1984). | | | Louis Althusser, a soldier, philosopher, professor, writer, and ideological and political critic, was born in France in 1918. | | | Althusser (1998) states that there are no practices “except by and in an ideology&; (299). |
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http://www.nmediac.net/winter2004/gray.html
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| | Ideological State Apparatuses [Rick Wolff] |
| | Althusser admits his own subjectivity, his own peculiar subjection to his society’s ISAs and thus his socially embedded standpoint. | | | The basic statistics on capitalist exploitation in the United States since its civil war are stark in Marxist terms. | | | The first set was political and comprised the state and its various activities and branches. |
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http://dogma.free.fr/txt/RW_IdeologicalApparatuses.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays |
| | Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. | | | Louis Althusser was the chief theorist of the French Communist Party (PCF). | | | Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583670394?v=glance
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| | Lit 101 |
| | Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1971) | | | R 222-228: Althusser reviews various Marxist theories of the State. | | | This question of "effectivity" should be familiar to you from Jameson. |
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http://ic.ucsc.edu/~ksgruesz/lit101/AlthusserGuide.htm
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| | The first is what Althusser calls the RSA, or Repressive State Apparatuses, that can enforce behavior directly, such as the police, and the criminal justice and prison system. | | | More importantly for literary studies, however, are the second mechanism Althusser investigates, which he calls ISAs, or Ideological State Apparatuses. | | | The State, for Althusser, is the kind of governmental formation that arises with capitalism; a state (and you can substitute the word "nation" here to help conceptualize what the "State" is) is determined by the capitalist mode of production and formed to protect its interests. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/1997althusser.html
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| | Marxist Theory and Criticism: 2. Structuralist Marxism |
| | Althusser in fact cites them approvingly in his own writings. | | | I think that the force of his criticism against the Althusserian school must be distinguished from the reasons he gives to back it. | | | But his writing is consistently marked by dissatisfaction with the role of the academic Marxist and with the entire institutionalization of literary study. |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/marxist_theory_and_criticism-_2.html
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| | Introduction to Louis Althusser, Module on ISAs |
| | The state apparatus includes "the Government, the Administration, the Army, the Police, the Courts, the Prisons, etc." (Althusser, Lenin 96). | | | It is also worth mentioning that, according to Althusser, "what the bourgeoisie has installed as its number-one, i.e. | | | (See the previous module for Althusser on ideology.) As a result, he proposes to distinguish "ideological state apparatuses" (ISAs for short) from the repressive state apparatus (SA for short). |
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http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/marxism/modules/althusserISAsmainframe.html
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| | Politics and Culture |
| | In a brilliant twist, Althusser is positioned in person precisely within the anti-humanist problematic of the träger: "I was not acting on my own behalf....the decision was made for us by the effects of the theoretical conjuncture itself" (2). | | | The publication of The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings adds another installment to the posthumous reckoning with Louis Althusser that began after the theorist died on October 22, 1990. | | | In recognizing the scientificity of psychoanalysis, is not Althusser also recognizing its autonomy, abandoning his old dogmatism and suggesting a new ecumenical spirit in which he appears "to refute the charge he nurtures >hegemonic ambitions= in his theoreticism" (Althusser xivi)? |
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http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/printer_page.cfm?key=319
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| | The Late Word |
| | In 1980, in an act which concluded a life of manic depression, Althusser strangled his wife, Helene. | | | Following the murder, Althusser was found legally "incompetent" and committed to mental institutions where, it was universally expected, he would observe a guilty silence. | | | Would that the New Press were half as aware of its own contradictory and complicitous relations to the State. |
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http://www.altx.com/interzones/white/word2.html
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| | The sole written record of his impassioned encounter with Folie et déraison are the notes from which he delivered his lecture "Foucault et le problematique des origines" to his seminar on Structuralism on April 9, 1963. | | | It is at this point that Derrida asks whether Foucault's project would not now require him "to exhume the virgin and unitary ground (sol) in which the act of decision that connects and separates reason and madness obscurely took root" (62) and to account for the origin of the originary decision itself. | | | Althusser, however, seeks to precisely to develop (although he will do so only later in his own texts) the concepts that Foucault produces but from which he will ultimately retreat. |
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http://www.mercatiesplosivi.com/althusser/montag.html
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| | SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: ADDITIONAL READINGS |
| | This repressive element of the state is what Althusser calls the State Apparatus and consists of the government, the administration, the army, the police, the courts, the prisons, etc. | | | Althusser reaches this conclusion through a long critique of Marx's theory of the state, which follows. | | | In addition to this, the state also consists of Ideological State Apparatuses which are a number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions, such as religion, education, the family, media, culture, etc. |
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http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Strat/stadd.html
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| | Roger Bellin: Spectropolitics - Haunting Marx and Freud |
| | For the "birth of necessity" is also, inevitably, a death; just as Marx was born out of the "decomposition of Hegel," he also bears the guilt of his own murder, the death of the Young Marx: | | | To "lose time," says Althusser, in living with Marx, in passing through his youth, is not to kill Marx but to give him the lost time to live: we give back this life in order to see the gaps between his words, between his texts. | | | Althusser calls the viewpoint, the point of view, of this inevitable death, the sight of its remainder the skull, "Hegelian." But this "Hegel" is once again Hegel within Marx, the name for a Marx who haunts himself, the name for the child's killer who nevertheless shares his skull. |
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http://alum.hampshire.edu/~rb97/spectropolitics/1.html
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| | Athusser in Contexts |
| | Balibar, "The Non-Contemporaneity of Althusser" (from The Althusserian Legacy) | | | The "contexts" of the seminar’s title include selected works by Marx and Mao, as well as texts that will illuminate relationships between his work and that of his contemporaries, his students and his collaborators. | | | Yale French Studies 88: Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey, and the Labor of Reading (Yale, 1995) |
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http://www-hl.syr.edu/depts/english/faculty/courses/Reed-Althusser.htm
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| | Reading Althusser |
| | These include very familar themes: general theory of historical materialism, the nature of imperialism, theory of the state and law, theory of political practice, of historical forms of individuality. | | | This lecture was delivered in the summer of 1966 after the publication of the two texts For Marx and Reading Capital. | | | Althusser seeks a two pronged attack on spirtualism and on critical idealism and it is almost too obvious that for him Marxism is the theoretical field in which this is to be accomplished. |
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http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpalthusser5.htm
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| | LookSmart - Directory - Althusser, Louis |
| | Features a review of Althusser's "The Future Lasts Forever." Details Althusser's account of his institutionalization and the murder of his wife. | | | Biography of Louis Althusser discusses how his ideas diverged from traditional Marxism and his conception of ideology as the driving force in society. | | | Althusser, Louis - Locate resources on the Marxist social philosopher who originated the term "Ideological State Apparatus." |
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http://lsxml.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317911/us53880/us67423/us304158/us902635
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| | Louis Althusser and Education |
| | Althusser argues that schools mould children into subjects to fit the requirements of capitalism. | | | Functionalists argue that schools operate meritocratically, however Althusser argues that this is merely IDEOLOGY that makes people believe that the education system is fair when really it serves the interests of the ruling class because they control the education system. | | | In school we are socialised into believing that schools operate on meritocratic principles, this ideology pacifies us and we do not see that the education system is really unfair and serves to reproduce the inequalities of society and the relations of production that benefit the capitalist class. |
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http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/EDUCATIO/althusser.htm
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| | Contacts - Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies |
| | Lévi-Strauss' and Althusser's insistence on the determination of structure, on one level, served as a corrective to Sartrean individualism. | | | The critique of humanism throughout the 60s and 70s was at once a critique of social democratic reformism or liberal humanism and simultaneously a critique of orthodoxy, of old guard Stalinism. | | | 12 Louis Althusser, `Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)', in Essays on Ideology (London: Verso, 1984), p. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/sihomer/human.html
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| | Bookmark notes on Thompson's critique of Althusser in the Poverty of Philosophy |
| | This troubled relation was the subject of the work of the Althusserian Nicos Poulantzas | | | “Althusser and his colleagues seek to thrust historical materialism back into the prison of the categories of Political Economy”. | | | The study of history is not only scientifically but also politically useless” |
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http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpalthusser7.htm
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| | English 495: Marxist Cultural Theory |
| | Althusser has also been criticized for producing a rigidly mechanistic functionalist subject--a subject which is absolutely and completely overdetermined by the dominant ideology. | | | One consequence of this insight is that the conventional conceptions of "author" (authority, originator) and "individual agent" are replaced by the ideologically constituted (or positioned) subject. | | | Nonetheless, his model enabled a much more complex understanding of the workings of ideology than had been previously recognized. |
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http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/495/ideology.html
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| | Marxist Media Theory |
| | Althusser's influence has been held responsible by some critics for leading some of his followers into purely formalist readings of the signifying systems of mass media forms, neglecting their modes of production and reception. | | | Althusser's work represents a move away from a preoccupation with economic determination. | | | Althusser rejected two kinds of Marxist essentialism: economism (economic determinism) and humanism (in which social developments were seen as expressive of a pre-given human nature). |
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism09.html
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| | Louis Althusser, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books |
| | Spinoza en de anti-naturalistische filosofie van Louis Althusser (Mededelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis) | | | Darstellung e soggettivitÃÂ : Saggio su Althusser (Pubblicazioni della FacoltÃÂ di lettere e filosofia dellUniversitÃÂ di Milano) | | | Discutere lo Stato: Posizioni a confronto su una tesi di Louis Althusser (Dissensi) |
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http://www.bookfinder4u.co.uk/book_search_8/Louis_Althusser.html
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| | Selected Texts on Étienne Balibar |
| | The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Althusser and His Influence | | | "The Spectral Legacy of Althusser: The Symptom and Its Return." | | | "The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance: Louis Pierre Althusser, |
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http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/Wellek/balibar/works_about.html
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| | Louis Althusser |
| | Il centro della riflessione di Althusser è una lettura in chiave strutturalista del pensiero di Marx. | | | Nato a Birmandreis in Algeria il 16 ottobre 1918, Louis Althusser frequenta le lezioni di Gaston Bachelard e del filosofo cattolico Jean Guitton sotto la cui guida vive un periodo di intensa milizia cristiana. | | | L'etica dell'impegno e del progetto, che nell'io scorge il motore della storia e che caratterizza la tradizione umanistica cristiana, idealistica, esistenzialistica, e, in parte, anche marxista, per Althusser è solo un inganno ideologico.Secondo Althusser il marxismo non solo è antiumanismo, ma è anche antistoricismo. |
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http://www.emsf.rai.it/scripts/documento.asp?id=512&tabella=anagrafico
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| | Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies |
| | A bit later, other important works of "Western marxism," especially those of Antonio Gramsci with his concept of cultural "hegemony," and Georg Lukacs, with his concept of "reification" are rediscovered in the US. | | | Althusser's work was highly influential in Britain and on such American figures as Jameson, as well as on feminist film theory. | | | Other important schools of neo-marxism acknowledged below include the structural marxism of Louis Althusser, the cultural materialism of Raymond Williams, the eclectic semiotic marxism of Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson's literary theoretical approaches, marxist- or materialist-feminisms, Third World marxisms (Mao, Castro/Guevara, etc.), and the surrealist-anarcho-marxism of the Situationists. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/tm/marx.html
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| | Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Political Philosophy: Political Philosophers: Althusser, ... |
| | On Marxism, by Louis Althusser - Excerpt from Louis Althusser, Early Writings, The Spectre of Hegel, translated by G M Goshgarian, Verso, 1997. | | | The Louis Althusser Internet Archive - Includes "Contradiction and Overdetermination," and "Marx vs Engels" (both from "For Marx). | | | Top: Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Political Philosophy: Political Philosophers: Althusser, Louis |
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Political_Science/Political_Philosophy/Political_Philosophers/Althusser,_Louis
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| | MSN Encarta - Althusser, Louis |
| | Althusser, Louis (1918-1990), French philosopher, the most influential Marxist theoretician in the West during the 1970s. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781532952/Althusser_Louis.html
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| | Ideology Handout: Professor John Lye |
| | This socialization process, the shaping of our cognitive and affective interpretations of our social world, is called, by Gramsci, "hegemony;" it is carried out, Althusser writes, by the state ideological apparatuses -- by the churches, the schools, the family, and through cultural forms (such as literature, rock music, advertising, sitcoms, etc.) | | | While the concept of ideology is most generally associated with power relations, we have to keep from being too simplistic. | | | Ideology, writes Althusser, is "a representation of the imaginary relation of individuals to the real condition of existence." Further, Althusser writes, ideology creates us as persons: it "hails" us, calls us into being. |
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http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/ideology.html
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Aesthetics-Altruism |
| | According to Althusser, social organization is determined wholly by ideological consequences expressed in economic and political power, enforced in home and family as well as in the workplace. | | | }, Althusser offered a structuralist re-interpretation of the later work of Marx. | | | The differential roles to which individuals are assigned in a society, he argued, are clearly signified not only by the presence of particular notions in its cultural paradigms, but even more dramatically by the absence of others. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/a2.htm
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| | Notes on a Materialist Theater - ALTHUSSER, LOUIS |
| | See more books from our catalog: Social Movements | | | They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. | | | Notes on a Materialist Theater - ALTHUSSER, LOUIS |
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