Althusser
Britishnoun
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So many of the concepts he has taken up in order to dismantle their power—from Marx and Althusser to Julia Kristeva—come from the same European cultures that created the colonialism that brutalized Vietnam.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2021
French sociologist Louis Althusser once wrote that when a woman visits a shoe shop and buys high-heel shoes, she is making a clear ideological statement.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2013
By his later years, Judt's adherence to scholarly standards, along with his contempt for charlatans such as Louis Althusser and for academic fashion, made him seem a conservative figure to more modish colleagues.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2010
But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But Le Quotidien cried "cover-up," calling it "a complicity of party and of class" that Althusser received such kid-glove treatment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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