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Alain Badiou
(1937– )FrenchMarxist philosopher, novelist and playwright. Born in Rabat, Morocco, Badiou completed high school in Toulouse before moving to Paris for undergraduate studies at the prestigious École ...
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(1928–90).
Marxist philosopher. Born in Algeria, he joined the French Communist Party in 1948, and taught
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(1918–1990) An influential French Marxist philosopher who challenged the two dominant strains of twentieth-century Marxist thought: the Hegelian
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(1918–90).
The most influential Marxist philosopher in the 1960s and 1970s, Althusser produced a novel form of Marxism by attempting to integrate into it the dominant ideas of ...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
French Marxist philosopher, whose writings were widely influential in continental philosophy until he was declared insane.
Born near Algiers, Althusser...
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(1918–1990),
French philosopher who was a Communist Party theorist during the 1960s and 1970s. Like Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (
apartheid
The former South African policy of racial segregation of other groups from the white inhabitants. Adopted by the successful Afrikaner National Party as a slogan in the 1948 election, apartheid ...
articulation
Is a term used in academic industrial relations to refer to the integration of trade union activity or collective bargaining at industry and local levels of the industrial relations system. For ...
base and superstructure
Karl Marx's metaphor for the relationship between material production and economic relations (the base) and the political, legal, and cultural dimensions of society (the superstructure). Marx's key ...
cognitive map
A mental representation of a portion of the physical environment and the relative locations of points within it. Cognitive maps are generally distorted by simplifying assumptions and preconceptions: ...
conjuncture
A term used by so-called structural Marxists (see Louis Althusser) to refer to the concrete state of political-economic and especially class relations, in a specific society, at a particular point in ...
cultural theory
This term has been applied to diverse attempts to conceptualize and understand the dynamics of culture. Historically these have involved arguments about the relationship between culture and nature, ...
decentred structure
French MarxistLouis Althusser's term for Marx's conception of the social totality as opposed to Hegel's. In Althusser's view, Hegel's structure of the whole is expressive, meaning that each part of ...
dialectical materialism
The dominant philosophical strain of Marxism, combining materialism as an embracing philosophy of nature and science, with the Hegelian notion of dialectic as a historical force, driving events ...
discourse analysis
Generally refers to approaches to the study of language that examine the conditions of possibility of particular statements and their effects. Discourse analysis, in this sense, situates specific ...
dominant ideology thesis
Proponents of the thesis identify ideology, a term used (in this context) synonymously with concepts such as shared belief systems, ultimate values, and common culture, as the mainstay of social ...
E. P. Thompson
(1924–93)Historian, born in Oxford and educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; for many years (1948–65) an extramural lecturer at Leeds University. His works include an influential study of ...
École Freudienne de Paris
Founded by Jacques Lacan in 1964 after he was expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association, to train analysts to practise as psychoanalysts. The founding members of the School ...
economic determinism
The thesis, as advanced by Marx and Engels, that economic factors underlie all of society's decisions. The social relations specific to a particular mode of production are said to structure social ...
Étienne Balibar
(1942–)French*Marxistphilosopher and social theorist. Born in Bourgogne, Balibar studied at the École Normale Supérieure, where he met Louis Althusser, who became his mentor. Balibar rose to ...
