On Ideology

This major voice in French philosophy presents a classic study of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. Spanning the years 1964 to 1973, On Ideology contains the seminal text, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus" (1970), which revolutionized the concept of subject formation. In "Reply to John Lewis" (1972-73), Althusser addressed the criticisms of the English Marxist toward On Marx and Reading Capital. Also included are "Freud and Lacan" (1964) and "A Letter on Art in Reply to Andr Daspre" (1966).

Author: Louis Althusser
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/31/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781788738552
ISBN10: 1788738551
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Epistemology
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

About the Author
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.