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Louis Althusser

(1918—1990) French philosopher

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Althusser, Louis

Althusser, Louis (1928–90)   Reference library

The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

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2005
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(1928–90).

Marxist philosopher. Born in Algeria, he joined the French Communist Party in 1948, and taught

Althusser, Louis

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David McLellan

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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2005
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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 ... More
Althusser, Louis

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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century

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2003
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French Marxist philosopher, whose writings were widely influential in continental philosophy until he was declared insane.

Born near Algiers, Althusser...

Althusser, Louis

Althusser, Louis (1918–1990)   Reference library

Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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2002
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(1918–1990) An influential French Marxist philosopher who challenged the two dominant strains of twentieth-century Marxist thought: the Hegelian

Althusser, Louis

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Encyclopedia of Semiotics

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2007
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(1918–1990),

French philosopher who was a Communist Party theorist during the 1960s and 1970s. Like Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (

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