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Althusser

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Althusser [ˈɑːltuːsə (French) ɑltusər]
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(Biographies / Althusser, Louis (1918-1990) M, French, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, WRITING: writer) 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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Translated from the Slovene by Nusa Rozman In attempting to determine the elusive relation between literature and its social position, it is impossible to ignore the work of Louis Althusser and his followers in the early 1970s.
14) Through this act of interpellation, the individuals become subjugated as subjects to nation-state of South Africa (what Althusser would refer to as the Subject).
France is a country where Marxism in one form or another, but most importantly in the form of Marxist existentialism and humanism as developed in the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as of a more orthodox Marxism championed by Louis Althusser in the early 1960s, has provided a dominant frame of reference for work in philosophy, sociology, and the "human sciences" ever since the end of World War II.
 
 
 
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