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
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Ideology has no history.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“The lonely hour of the last instance never comes.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Marx's true discovery is the discovery of history as a process without a subject.”
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“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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