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Interpellation (philosophy) Interpellation is a concept introduced to Marxist theory by Louis Althusser as the mechanism through which pre-existing social structures "constitute" (or construct) individual human organisms as subjects (with consciousness and agency). Althusser asked how people come voluntarily to live within class, gender, racial ...
Jan 27, 2017 · One of the more significant of these theories comes from a French Marxist, Louis Althusser, in his 1970 essay, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation).”. In it he argues that ideology interpellates individuals as subjects. Interpellation is the experience of being “hailed,” like a taxi driver is ...
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Jul 25, 2023 · Interpellation and its Remainder: The Im/Possibility of Subject-Formation. This part critically reads Louis Althusser’s theorization of interpellation from his Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus (Althusser 1971). I argue here that to understand subjectivity and subject-formation, we need to interrogate interpellation’s conditions of ...
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.
There is no ideology, writes Althusser, except for concrete subjects and this destination for ideology is only made possible by the subject: mean-ing, by the category of the subject and its functioning. 2 Since ideology in 1 Althusser 2001, p.175. 2 Althusser 2001, p.155. Interpellation
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 ...
48Louis Althusser, “Reply to John Lewis” in Louis Althusser, Essays on Ideology (Verso 1984) 93. 49Larraín (n 40) 91-92. Syed Zulkifil Haider Shah Althusser on Law’s Subject: Revisiting Interpellation and the Jurisprudence of Ideology. IALS Student Law Review | Volume 5 Issue 1, Spring 2018| Page 9.
