LOUIS ALTHUSSER Althusser was born on the 16th October

1918 in Algeria to a pieds-noirs family.

After his father death, he moved to

Marseille.

He was accepted to École Normale

Supérieure in Paris.

He was put in a German prisoner war camp.

He remained in the camp for the rest of the

war.

In 1946, Althusser met Hélène Rytman and

in 1980 he strangled her to death.

Althusser was diagnosed as suffering from

diminished responsibility.

He remained in hospital until 1983.

He died on 22nd October 1990.

We live in a world dominated by a particular way of seeing.

Althusser is a determinist: he does not believe people actually have free will.

He claims that people are taken to be dependent on physical objects which related to theories of material culture.

HIS BELIEFS AND WHAT HE DID

Althusser presents his work as extremely orthodox in its Marxism, but in fact it involves important new ideas.

Althusser draws on Marx’s view of ideology as a set of representations and ideas which dominate the mind.

He expanded on the Marxist theory and began to notice the way in which the human mind works.

He wrote two books in 1865 which departed from the key aspects of traditional interpretations' of Marxism. These books can now be used for in depth study on Marxism.

HE IS IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser

http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-althusser-1/

BIBLIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

Although many of Louis theories and discoveries are often forgotten in modern day life, leaving him remembered only for killing his wife, he expanded the Marxist theory by a large proportion showing true insight into the way in which each individual thinks and reacts.