Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusserwas a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 October 1918
CountryAlgeria
Louis Althusser quotes about
real individual existence
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
philosophy struggle class
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
men demand existence
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
art knowing giving
What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.