Louis Althusser: Philosophy

Louis Althusser was French political philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on philosophy.

Louis Althusser: 40 quotes2 likes

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

Louis Althusser

Source: Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays

“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”

Louis Althusser

Source: Essays in Self-Criticism

“Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.”

Louis Althusser book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968), "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon", p. 2

“The number-one philosophical battle therefore takes place on the frontier between the scientific and the ideological. There the idealist philosophies which exploit the sciences struggle against the materialist philosophies which serve the sciences.”

Louis Althusser book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968), "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon", p. 6