The Philosopher
Louis Althusser
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- French
- Schools:
- Western Marxism, Structural Marxism
- Period:
- 20th-century philosophy
The synopsis
The works
For Marx
Reading Capital
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Montesquieu, la politique et l'histoire
L'avenir dure longtemps
The quotes
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.
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.