Louis Althusser

13.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Louis Althusser is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and General Social Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis Althusser has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Philosophy, 38 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in General Social Sciences. Recurrent topics in Louis Althusser's work include Marxism and Critical Theory (28 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (13 papers) and Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory (7 papers). Louis Althusser is often cited by papers focused on Marxism and Critical Theory (28 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (13 papers) and Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory (7 papers). Louis Althusser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Burundi and France. Louis Althusser's co-authors include G. M. Goshgarian, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Bidet, Wolf Heydebrand, Frieder Wolf, Gregory Elliott, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Montag, Gerard Duménil and Ben Brewster and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Theory Culture & Society.

In The Last Decade

Louis Althusser

88 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays 1971 2026 1989 2007 1971 2014 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Peers

Louis Althusser
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.7k
  • Philosophy 906
  • Political Science and International Relations 857
  • Education 613
  • Literature and Literary Theory 602
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Livre sur l’impérialisme
0
2
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?
0
3 1
4
The humanist controversy and other writings (1966-67)
50
5 0
6
13. Le marxisme aujourd'hui (1978)
1
7
Solitude de Machiavel et autres textes
5
8
6. La philosophie comme arme de la révolution
0
9
11. Enfin la crise du marxisme ! (1977)
5
10
The Future Lasts a Long Time ; and, the Facts
15
11
Sur Althusser passages
2
12
El porvenir es largo: ; Los hechos
4
13
Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau Zur Politischen Philosophie der Neuzeit
3
14
Montesquieu : la politique et l'histoire
18
15
Dos o tres palabras (brutales) sobre marx y lenin
0
16
Die Krise des Marxismus
7
17
Lénine et la philosophie, suivi de Marx et Lénine devant Hegel
2
18
Lenin und die Philosophie
2
19
¿es fácil ser marxista en filosofía?
1
20
Freud y Lacan
0

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