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Louis Althusser
AuthorBooks · Second hand1918-1990
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.
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About Louis Althusser
Birth
1918
Death
1990
First book
1965
Years writing
61
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.
Louis Althusser was an influential French political philosopher who transformed the study of Marxism in the 20th century.
His seminal work, Reading Capital, became an essential reference text for understanding Marxist economic theory.
As a university professor, Althusser exerted a profound intellectual influence on several generations of contemporary thinkers.
The concept of ideological state apparatuses is one of his most cited and debated contributions to the social sciences.
Born in Bir Mourad Raïs, his prolific career spanned over one hundred works dedicated to philosophy and politics.
