Reading Capital

Name: Reading Capital
Author: Louis Althusser

by Louis Althusser

Co-authored structural analysis of Marx's Capital as theoretical system

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Louis Althusser

French Marxist philosopher who attempted to develop a scientific Marxism purged of Humanism. His concept of Ideological State Apparatuses has been enormously influential in cultural studies. He strangled his wife during a mental breakdown in 1980 and spent the rest of his life in psychiatric institutions.

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