Ideologische staatsapparate louis althusser biography
Louis althusser theory of ideology!
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
1970 essay by Louis Althusser
"Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)" (French: "Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d'État (Notes pour une recherche)")[1] is an essay by the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.
Ideologische staatsapparate louis althusser biography
First published in 1970, it advances Althusser's conception and critique of ideology. Where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels posited a thinly-sketched theory of ideology as a system of falsehoods serving the ruling class [citation needed], Althusser draws upon the works of later theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to proffer a more elaborate redefinition of the theory.
Althusser's theory of ideology has remained influential since it was written.
Reproduction of the relations of production
Althusser begins the essay by reiterating the Marxist theory that in order to exist, a social formation is required to essentially, continuous