Louis Althusser – an Intellectual Adventure (2017)

This documentary traces the development of the thought of the Marxist French philosopher Louis Althusser (1918-1990), who influenced a whole generation of philosophers, including Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Badiou and Zizek. Famous for his Definition of ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Althusser is credited with reinterpreting Marx in a way that encouraged readers to engage directly with his work and for being the one thinker who had the most impact on the development of Marxism in the second half of the 20th. Century.

Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure, captures the man, and the implications of his work, in interviews with friends and colleagues such as Lucien Seve, who served more than 30 years on the central committee of the Communist Party of France, and with philosophers and former students including Etienne Balibar, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière.

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