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Louis Althusser: Life and Legacy. Louis Althusser, a soldier, philosopher, professor, writer, and ideological and political critic, was born in France in 1918. He is best known for his criticisms and reconceptualizations of Marxism, as well as for his theory of ideology (Baldwin et al, 1999).
82 Louis Althusser ideologies – religious, ethical, legal, political, aesthetic, etc. – being assured by their subjection to the ruling ideology). I now return to this thesis: an ideology always exists in an apparatus, and its practice, or practices. This existence is material.
13. Apr. 2016 · There are three main points that Althusser makes about this process of becoming subjects-in-ideology. 1. We are born into subject-hood – if only because we’re named before we’re born; hence we’re always already subjects. The acquisition of language is the process of becoming a subject, for both Althusser and Lacan. 2.
To be more precise, Althusser explains that the SA functions predominantly by violence or repression and only secondarily by ideology. Similarly the ISAs function predominantly by ideology but can include punishment or repression secondarily: "Schools and Churches use suitable methods of punishment, expulsion, selection, etc., to 'discipline ...
But now for what is essential. What distinguishes the ISAs from the (Repressive) State Apparatus is the following basic difference: the Repressive State Apparatus functions ‘by violence’, whereas the Ideological State Apparatuses function ‘by ideology’. I can clarify matters by correcting this distinction.
1. Juni 1970 · 120. reviews. Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek.
Louis Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” argues, rather straightforwardly, that “ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.” This relationship, however “imaginary,” is based, in particular, on the roles of culture, identity, and memory, as ...
