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A critique of Althusser's concepts in this essay, and the more broad based Gramscian inspired turn in postwar Marxism since the Second World War has been provided by Vivek Chibber, arguing instead that 'resignation' is the driving force behind worker's lack of militancy during periods of capitalist dominance, de-emphasising the role placed on ...
For example, when a police officer shouts (or hails) "Hey, you there!" and an individual turns around and, so-to-speak, 'answers' the call, the individual becomes a subject. Althusser argues that this is because the individual has realized that the hailing was addressed at him which makes him subjective to the ideology of democracy and law.
Essays in Self-criticism (French: Eléments d'autocritique) is one of the chief works of the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, first published in 1974. [1] An English translation by Grahame Lock was published in 1976.
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays is a collection of essays, written by the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, published in 1971. [10] A similar edition in French is Lénine et la philosophie suivi de Marx et Lénine devant Hegel (Paris, 1972).
Structural Marxism (sometimes called Althusserian Marxism) is an approach to Marxist philosophy based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. It was influential in France during the 1960s and 1970s, and also came to influence philosophers, political theorists and ...
Louis Pierre Althusser (UK: / ˌ æ l t ʊ ˈ s ɛər /, US: / ˌ ɑː l t uː ˈ s ɛər /; [4] French:; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
He examines works of Althusser such as For Marx (1965), Reading Capital (1965), and Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968). He also discusses the work of other French philosophers, such as Henri Lefebvre , Alexandre Kojève , Georges Politzer , Jean Hyppolite , Jean-Paul Sartre , Maurice Merleau-Ponty , and René Maublanc , and the ...
For Marx (French: Pour Marx) is a 1965 book by the philosopher Louis Althusser, [1] a leading theoretician of the French Communist Party (PCF), in which the author reinterprets the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, proposing an epistemological break between the young, Hegelian Marx, and the old Marx, the author of Das Kapital (1867–1883).