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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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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

A direct descendant of Monty Python, the only dangerous thing about her is that you might not laugh at the appropriate moment when she makes a joke about Louis Althusser.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2010

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

But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital.

From Time Magazine Archive

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