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Oct 16, 2009 · Despite the comparative indifference shown to his work as a whole after these events, the theory of ideology Althusser developed within it has been broadly deployed in the social sciences and humanities and has provided a foundation for much “post-Marxist” philosophy.
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Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation) First published: in La Pensée, 1970; Translated: from the French by Ben Brewster; Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Monthly Review Press 1971; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.
Ideological state apparatuses ( ISA ), according to Althusser, use methods other than physical violence to achieve the same objectives as RSA. They may include educational institutions (e.g. schools), media outlets, churches, social and sports clubs and the family.
Althusser argues that ideology has a profound relationship with subjective experience. He writes, “all ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects.” What he means by this is that the practices and beliefs inherent to ideology produce a sense of identity.
Althusser's theory of ideology draws on Marx and Gramsci, but also on Freud's and Lacan's psychological concepts of the unconscious and mirror-phase respectively, and describes the structures and systems that enable the concept of self. For Althusser, these structures are both agents of repression and inevitable: it is impossible to escape ...
Althusser posits a series of hypotheses that he explores to clarify his understanding of ideology: 1) " Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence " ( Lenin 109 ).
Apr 25, 2024 · Louis Althusser was a French philosopher who attained international renown in the 1960s for his attempt to fuse Marxism and structuralism. Inducted into the French army in 1939, Althusser was captured by German troops in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in a German prisoner of war camp.