Althusser
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Badiou's philosophy of the subject is an extrapolation of Sartre's existentialist slogan "Existence precedes essence" and incorporates a communist hypothesis that Althusser might have liked.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
