Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Synopsis

Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj �i�ek. The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English.