Louis Althusser’s scientific contributions

... His premise was that a scientific psychology compatible with Marxism does not yet properly exist, but it could and-because the world needed it, not least because under communism "politics itself will disappear, but psychology will not," any more than any other science (Sève 1978, 21)-it should. He then followed Politzer (1928) in wishing to develop a distinct and characteristically Marxist conception of the personality, defending psychology in principle against both those Marxist critics who argued that it was redundant (Althusser et al. 1965) and those such as Garaudy and Sartre who- Sève (2008, 142) argued-portrayed Marx as only a champion of a "modern form of humanism" (humanisme moderni), focusing too much on his early works and ignoring historical materialism to a greater or lesser extent-essentially, failing to be Marxists. ...

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Can Biography Benefit from a Marxist Theory of Individuality? Lucien Sève’s Contribution to Biographical Theory and Practice

... Hall's narrative of BCS history is well-understood within the field. Hall (1980) articulated both terms to signify the influential, yet insufficient traditions he believed impacted the theoretical direction of cultural studies: the 'culture-and-society' tradition of the British scholars Richard Hoggart (1957) and Raymond Williams (1960Williams ( , 1963)of which he included the 'English marxist historiography' (Hall 1980, 58) of historian E.P. Thompson (1993) and the 'structuralist' intervention typified by French philosopher Louis Althusser (1977;Althusser and Balibar 1971). Two years previous, Hall's cultural studies colleague Johnson (1978) articulated culturalism in relation to Thompson's 'socialist humanist' historiography and the American historian Eugene Genovese (1976), omitting discussion of Hoggart and Williams. ...

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Culturalism, E.P. Thompson and the polemic in British Cultural Studies

... A key mechanism in this process is interpellation, wherein the legal system and institutional rules construct individuals as subjects of the state. Through routinized rituals and practices, ISAs socialize individuals with dominant ideologies, fostering internalized acceptance of state-imposed frameworks (Althusser 2014). Althusser (2014) argued that law is neither neutral nor objective but functions as both repressive and ideological tools reifying the dominant political-economic order. ...

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The Blueway and the Red Line Spiderweb: Assessing the Impact of Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses on Environmental Protests in China

... In fact, the author posits that it is the infusion of the former worldview, liberal bourgeois Protestantism via the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism, on the island by the mulatto elites and petit-bourgeois free persons of color, Affranchis, looking to Canada, France, and America for equality of opportunity, distribution, and recognition that not only threatens Haiti and its practical consciousnesses, Vodou and Kreyol, contemporarily, but all life and civilizations on earth because of its dialectical economic growth and accumulative logic within the finite space and resources of the earth. and therefore yearned to be like their white masters, i.e., freemen seeking liberty, equality, and fraternity, the rallying cry of the French Revolution [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. ...

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Antidialectics: Vodou and The Haitian Revolution in Opposition to The African American Civil Rights Movement

... En lo que toca a la epistemología crítica, influida por pensadores como Michel Foucault (1966), Gaston Bachelard (1938), Theodore Adorno (1966) y Louis Althusser-Balibar (1965), ha dejado una huella significativa en la comprensión del conocimiento y su aplicación en el ámbito educativo. Michel Foucault (1966), conocido por el Análisis crítico de las estructuras de poder, pero también por la formulación de las categorías de la arqueología de saberes y del biopoder; ha planteado una mirada penetrante sobre cómo es que se construye el conocimiento en diferentes contextos históricos, políticos, económicos y sociales. ...

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Epistemología en la educación: apuestas y desafíos contemporáneos

... Supone que las capacidades subjetivas existen naturalmente en cada uno y es necesario extraer esa esencia que se esconde detrás de la escoria que obtura las posibilidades de auto-valorización. Para la retórica neoliberal es necesario realizar una operación de abstracción, un procedimiento de depuración del sujeto, análogo al que el empirismo realiza sobre su objeto de conocimiento (Althusser, 1976). Es necesario retirar lo inesencial para obtener la verdad-capital preexistente. ...

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Extractivismo del cuerpo: condiciones subjetivas y expansión de las fronteras productivas en el capitalismo neoliberal

... 22-23). Unos seis años después, Althusser (2004b) reconocerá retrospectivamente el efecto que la filosofía de Spinoza tuvo en Montesquieu, señalamiento, por lo demás, ausente hacia 1959: ...

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Montesquieu o Spinoza. La política y la historia en Louis Althusser