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

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

From Time Magazine Archive