The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology contains Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from the late sixties and through the seventies. Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a 'left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary project here in the West', they are the record of a shared history. At the same time they chart Althusser's critique of the theoretical system unveiled in his own major works, and his developing practice of philosophy as a 'revolutionary weapon'.
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Louis Althusser. On Ideology
ON IDEOLOGY
Contents
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)
Foreword
Reply to John Lewis (Self-Criticism)
Note on ‘The Critique of the. Personality Cult’
Remark on the Category: ‘Process without a Subject or Goal(s)’
Freud and Lacan
A Letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre
Notes
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Two important works by Sartre published by Verso:
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Louis Althusser
(Notes towards an Investigation)
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I can clarify matters by correcting this distinction. I shall say rather that every State Apparatus, whether Repressive or Ideological, ‘functions’ both by violence and by ideology, but with one very important distinction which makes it imperative not to confuse the Ideological State Apparatuses with the (Repressive) State Apparatus.
This is the fact that the (Repressive) State Apparatus functions massively and predominantly by repression (including physical repression), while functioning secondarily by ideology. (There is no such thing as a purely repressive apparatus.) For example, the Army and the Police also function by ideology both to ensure their own cohesion and reproduction, and in the ‘values’ they propound externally.
