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Hace 2 días · Harnecker, who had been a Catholic militant in her youth, had embraced Marxism after traveling to Cuba and joining Louis Althusser’s research group in Paris, in 1962. Upon returning to Chile, in 1968 , she became a member of the Socialist Party and from that platform developed a sustained program of disseminating Marxist theory and socialist political texts.
Hace 3 días · Louis Althusser introduced the concept of interpellation in his well-known essay ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)’. In simple terms, Althusser argues that ideologies define our identities, interests and choices and tricks us into thinking that they are outcomes of independent will.
Hace 6 días · In his famous essay, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” published in 1970, Althusser preempted the arguments of the new materialism by asserting that ideology does not consist of ideas but exists in the materiality of apparatuses, practices and rituals.
Hace 6 días · Le 16 novembre 1980, Louis Althusser étrangle sa femme Hélène dans son appartement de fonction à l’École normale supérieure. Depuis lors, de nombreux ouvrages et articles sont venus éclairer la vie, l’œuvre et « la nuit impénétrable » de cette dernière nuit où tout semble s’être déroulé sans lui.
Hace 1 día · Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault—the ideas of this group of French intellectuals who propounded structuralism and poststructuralism have had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis.
Hace 3 días · Cuando la “filosofía de la historia” colgaba de las cornisas y la «totalidad» agonizaba, se precipitó el «reventón» historicista en las manos estructuralistas de Louis Althusser. Y así, estranguló a Hélene y fue encerrado junto al “materialismo aleatorio” en un hospital psiquiátrico de París.
Hace 6 días · It was influential in France during the 1960s and 1970s, and also came to influence philosophers, political theorists and sociologists outside France during the 1970s. Other proponents of ...
