What is Louis Althusser?
[[File:Louis Althusser sketch (8420987781).jpg|thumb]] '''Louis Pierre Althusser''' (Pronunciation: altuˡseʁ) (October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[philosopher]]. He was born in [[Algeria]]. He studied at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] in [[Paris]]. He became Professor of Philosophy there. He taught [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Jacques Derrida]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1DSpuRLZs3EC|title=Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers|last=Schrift|first=Alan D.|date=2005-11-04|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-1-4051-3218-3|language=en}}</ref> Althusser was a member of the [[French Communist Party]]. Sometimes he had bad opinions about the party. He argued against things he thought attacked the basic ideas of Marxism. Some examples are the influence of [[empiricism]] on [[Marxist]] theory, [[humanism|humanist]] and reformist [[socialism|socialist]] orientations in European [[Communism|communist]] parties, the problem of the '[[cult of personality]]' and [[ideology]]. Many people say that Althusser is a [[Structural Marxism|Structural Marxist]]. This is a type of Marxism based on [[structuralism]]. However, he had many different opinions about structuralism. In 1980, Althusser killed his wife.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-09-24|title=Louis Althusser - Philosopher - Biography|url=http://www.egs.edu/library/louis-althusser/biography/|access-date=2023-06-08|archive-date=2015-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010153/http://www.egs.edu/library/louis-althusser/biography/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> He went to a [[psychiatric hospital]] for three years. He died in 1990. == References == {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Althusser, Louis Pierre}} [[Category:1918 births]] [[Category:1990 deaths]] [[Category:French philosophers]] [[Category:Marxists]] [[Category:French communists]]