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Louis Althusser Quotes on Time

Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher and a teacher at the Ecole Normale Superieure for nearly thirty years. This page collects quotes attributed to Louis Althusser on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Louis Althusser:

    “Ideology has no history.”

  • Attributed to Louis Althusser:

    “The lonely hour of the last instance never comes.”

  • Attributed to Louis Althusser:

    “Marx's true discovery is the discovery of history as a process without a subject.”

  • “The sciences we are familiar with have been installed in a number of great 'continents'. Before Marx , two such continents had been opened up to scientific knowledge: the continent of Mathematics and the continent of Physics. The first by the Greeks ( Thales ), the second by Galileo . Marx opened up a third continent to scientific knowledge: the continent of History .”

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