Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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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