... the invisibility of Napoleon, that is of the power of the latter and the powerlessness of the former. In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. The latter, for him ... to protect what seemed to them as a favorable change in political power. Althusser insists, however, that, though unconsciously, subjects abide by the ideological stance of the state not out of fr...

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