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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…
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politics · French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990) · philosopher · politician · university teacher · editor · also Louis Althusser, Althusser, Louis Pierre Althusser
Born 16 October 1918 · Died 22 October 1990 · Q184169
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Communism was in the air in 1945, after the German defeat, the victory at Stalingrad, and the hopes and lessons of the Resistance.
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“she matter-of-factly asked me to kill her myself, and this word, unthinkable and intolerable in its horror, caused my whole body to tremble for a long time. It still makes me tremble ... We were living shut up in the cloister of our hell, both of us.”
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On the Reproduction of Capitalism was published, which is an English translation of the full text of the work from which the ISAs text was drawn
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Althusser continued to spark controversy and debate with the publication in August of that year of Jacques Rancière's first book, Althusser's Lesson (1974)
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Died 1990-10-22.
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"there is an absolute taboo now suppressing the name of this man and the meaning of his writings
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After Althusser underwent an emergency operation because of the obstruction of the esophagus, he developed a new clinical case of depression
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When Althusser finally noticed it by the time Chertok republished it in a book titled Dialogue franco-soviétique, sur la psychanalyse
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Killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her
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Sociologist Axel van den Berg described Kołakowski's critique as "devastating", proving that "Althusser retains the orthodox radical rhetoric by simply severing all connections with verifiable facts"
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And asked Chertok to replace the texts, but Chertok published the first without his consent
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Argued that there was no Marxist theory of the state; it was only published in 1994 in the Écrits philosophiques et politiques I
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Althusser estimated that he had spent fifteen of the previous thirty years in hospitals and psychiatric clinics
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Compiled several of his essays written between 1964 and 1975 to publish Positions
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And became very influential on ideology discussions
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And Reading Capital in 1970—disseminating his ideas among the English-speaking Marxists
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Althusser started an unfinished work that was only released in 1995 as Sur la reproduction ("On the Reproduction")
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Althusser published in the Cahiers pour l'Analyse the article "On the 'Social Contract'" ("Sur le 'Contrat Social'"), a course about Rousseau he had given at the ENS, and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract" ("Cremonini,
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Brought international fame to Althusser
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Althusser published an article titled "Freud and Lacan" in the journal La Nouvelle Critique, which greatly influenced Freudo-Marxist thought
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Began to write a book about Machiavelli during a depressive exacerbation but was interrupted by a three-months stay in a clinic
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As Elliott affirmed, was also when he "truly discovered" Machiavelli
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As he translated, edited, and published a collection directed by Hyppolite about Ludwig Feuerbach's works
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Became secrétaire de l'école litteraire (secretary of the literary school), assuming responsibility for managing and directing the school
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Published in the L'Évangile captif (The captive gospel), the tenth book of the Jeunesse de l'Église (the youth wing of Church), an article on the historic situation of Catholicism in response to the question: "Is the
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Was approved to teach in secondary schools but instead became a tutor at the ENS to help students prepare for their own agrégation
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Was a former member of the French resistance and a Communist activist
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Althusser met sociologist Hélène Rytmann, a Jewish former French Resistance member with whom he was in a relationship until he killed her by strangulation in 1980
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To prepare himself for the agrégation, an exam to teach philosophy in secondary schools
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“Communism was in the air in 1945, after the German defeat, the victory at Stalingrad, and the hopes and lessons of the Resistance.”
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After the German defeat, the victory at Stalingrad, and the hopes and lessons of the Resistance
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And became regular after his five-year stay in German captivity
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When Althusser settled in Lyon as a student at the Lycée du Parc
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His family moved to the French city of Marseille as his father was to be the director of the Compagnie Algérienne bank branch in the city
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Born 1918-10-16.
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