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May 18, 2015 · Within this framework, Althusser introduces the concept of interpellation, otherwise known as “hailing.” Ideologies “call out” or “hail” people and offer a particular identity, which they accept as “natural” or “obvious.” In this way, the dominant class exerts a power over individuals that is quite different from abject force.
Althusser uses the term "interpellation" to describe the process by which ideology constitutes individual persons as subjects. According to Althusser, the obviousness that people (you and I) are subjects is an effect of ideology. Althusser believes that there are two functions of interpellation.
Oct 16, 2009 · Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20 th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in the 1960s about Marxist philosophy were discussed and debated worldwide.
Jun 2, 2016 · Interpellation is perhaps one of the most problematic theses developed by Althusser. It triggered a wide range of critique from different orientations, both from those sympathetic (or even followers) of Althusser and from those who were more hostile to him.
abstract. In this article, I argue that Althusser’s theory of interpellation suggests, however obliquely, a way to subvert and ruin the formation of subjectivity under liberal capital-ism. For Althusser, when the law calls the subject, “nine times out of ten” the person called is “really” the one that the law intended.
Sep 25, 2017 · This essay traces out a new organization of Louis Althusser’s work that rests on his fundamental educational problematic: interpellation. There are three moments where Althusser discusses education in his writings: in the famous essay on schools as Ideological State Apparatuses, in his infamous essay on the university and the pedagogical ...
Aug 14, 2019 · This essay argues that Louis Althusser, in his posthumously published Machiavelli and Us, put forth a new concept of interpellation that significantly innovated on his previous theory of the interpellated subject as presented in the famous 1970 essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.”. This new concept, which I will call ...
