Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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)
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