Notes
1 Althusser quoted in Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, trans. by Kristin Ross (Stanford, CA: Stanford university Press, 1991), p.xvi.
2 Consequently, science does not simply reveal the truth, it must work to force truth’s recognition within and against a pre-existing ideological field (p.111). It is this claim that allows Althusser to frame the struggle for science as a socialist project whilst avoiding the trap of ‘proletarian science’ or Lysenkoism (p.108).
3 Louis Althusser, ‘Lenin and Philosophy’ [1968], in Lenin and Philosophy and other Essays, trans. by Ben Brewster (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006), pp.11-43 (p.14).
4 Louis Althusser, ‘The Transformation of Philosophy’ [1976], in Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists (London and New York: Verso, 2011), pp.241-265 (p.264).
5 Louis Althusser, ‘Is it Simple to be a Marxist in Philosophy?’ [1976], in Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists (London and New York: Verso, 2011), pp.203-240 (p.230).