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Althusser, Louis
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1918-1990
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He was a French philosopher who attained international renown in the 1960s for his attempt to fuse Marxism and structuralism.
After joining the French army in 1939, Althusser was captured by German troops in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in a German prisoner of war camp. In 1948 he joined the French Communist Party (PCF); in the same year, he was appointed to the faculty of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he taught for nearly three decades and influenced generations of students. He wrote two major works on the philosophy of Karl Marx (1818–83), For Marx and Reading Capital (both published in 1965). He later suffered a mental breakdown and strangled his wife of some 30 years to death. Judged unfit to stand trial, he was institutionalized for several years. His confessional autobiography, The Future Lasts Forever, was published posthumously in 1992.
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Louis Althusser. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Althusser.