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Louis Althusser

1918–1990

Louis Althusser (1918–1990) was a French Marxist philosopher whose structuralist reinterpretation of Marx’s work profoundly influenced 20th-century critical theory. He taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where his students included Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, and is best known for his concepts of ideological state apparatuses, interpellation, and the epistemological break. His life was marked by severe mental illness, culminating in the 1980 murder of his wife, Hélène, after which he spent years in psychiatric institutions.

Philosophy

For Marx
Reading Capital (with Étienne Balibar)
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Essays in Self-Criticism
Machiavelli and Us
The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings

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