Quote of the day
Maybe you are the cool generation … If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Louis Althusser
Born: October 16, 1918
Died: October 22, 1990 (aged 72)
Bio: Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Known for:
- Reading Capital (1968)
- For Marx (1965)
- Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1974)
- Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)
Louis Althusser Quotes