Louis Althusser-Reception and influence
Although Althusser's theories were born of an attempt to defend what some saw as Communist orthodoxy, the eclecticism of his influ…
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Louis Althusser-Ideological state apparatuses
Because Althusser held that a person's desires, choices, intentions, preferences, judgements, and so forth are the products of soc…
Louis Althusser-Contradiction and overdetermination
An analysis understood in terms of interdependent levels and practices helps us to conceive of how society is organised, but also …
Louis Althusser-Levels and practices
Because of Marx's belief that the individual is a product of society, Althusser believes that it is pointless to try to build a so…
Louis Althusser-Though
Althusser's earlier works include the influential volumeReading Capital(1965), which collects the work of Althusser and his studen…
Louis Althusser-Health
After the war, Althusser was able finally to attend ENS.[2]However, he was in poor health, both mentally and physically. In 1947 h…
Louis Althusser-Early life
Althusser was born inFrench Algeriain the town ofBirmendres, nearAlgiers, to apieds-noirsfamily.[2]He was named after his paternal…
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser(French:[altysɛʁ]; 16 October 1918 22 October 1990) was a FrenchMarxist philosopher. He was born inAlgeri…
Karl-Otto Apel-List of works
Analytic Philosophy of Language and the Geisteswissenschaften(1967) Hermeneutik und Ideologiekritik(1971) Sprache, Brcke und Hinde…
Karl-Otto Apel-Philosophy
Apel worked inethics, thephilosophy of languageand human sciences. He wrote extensively in these fields, publishing mostly in Germ…
