Birthdate: October 16, 1918
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bir Mourad Raïs, Algeria
Died: October 22, 1990
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He was a member of the French Communist Party and a critic of threats to Marxist theory. Althusser was known for his arguments against empiricism, humanism, and reformist socialist orientations within European communist parties. He is considered a structural Marxist with a critical view of structuralism. Althusser later identified as a social anarchist. His career was impacted by periods of mental illness, culminating in a tragic event that led to his institutionalization and limited academic output until his death.
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