... of his inheritors, for “ideology” all but vanishes from his oeuvre after 1846, only to reappear after his death in Friedrich Engels's “Anti-Dühring”. According to Theodor W. Adorno, “the unideological thought is that which does not permit itself to be reduced to operational terms”. As Louis Althusser...

...This chapter studies the way that the Idealist philosophical tradition imagines the emergence of philosophical concepts. It discusses the work of Louis Althusser, for whom the question takes shape at the nexus of a particularly rich set of problems: how to imagine historical events (including...