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
philosophy struggle class
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
littles consciousness ideology
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
fighting philosopher theory
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’
reproduction productions ultimate
The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production
philosophy goal battle
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.
self facts characteristics
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
philosophy world way
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.