by Louis Althusser · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844672028
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In 'On Ideology', Louis Althusser explores the concept of ideology and its role in society. Althusser, an influential Marxist philosopher, examines how ideologies shape our understanding of the world and how they operate to maintain existing power structures. This book offers a profound analysis of ideology as an omnipresent force that influences our thoughts, actions, and social institutions.
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.
