LouisAlthusser(1918-1990).docVIP

Louis Althusser (1918-1990) 1918-bon in French- held Algeria 1940-1945 captured in a German prisoner of war camp. 1948- completed his master’s thesis on the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel in Ecole Normale in Paris and joined communist Party in Paris 1980- murdered his wife because of mental illness. 1980-90-sentenced to house arrest under psychiatric care till his death in 1990 . ---Influential works: for Marx(1965) Lenin and Philosophy(1969) Major concepts “ideological state apparatuses” “interpellation” “imaginary relations” ---Althusser’s concept of ideology has been crucial to cultural studie