Althusser

British  

/ ˈɑːltuːsə, ɑltusər /

noun

1. Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife

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Example Sentences

Scholars of the entity refer to it as "a denial machine," but it also fits Louis Althusser's criteria of an ISA: "a system of defined institutions, organizations, and the corresponding practices," which, through their day-to-day activities, uphold some elements of the dominant ideology.

From Salon

These deserve the label of "counter-apparatuses," But for ideological apparatuses that reproduce the dominant ideology, we can retain Althusser's original term, the S for "state" not a literal suggestion that a king or prime minister rules them like an embassy, but a sign precisely of that reproducing and cementing function.

From Salon

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

My earliest reading memory I was born in Strasbourg, France, into a house full of immigrants and leftist students where people read Louis Althusser and chain-smoked Gauloises.

From The Guardian

If page upon page of metrically stringent and dutifully rhymed lines with clunky allusions to Wittgenstein, Derrida, Mallarmé, Althusser, Joyce, Marx, Brecht, Benjamin, Adorno and Badiou — to name a few — strikes you as illuminating, then you’ll enjoy this book.

From New York Times