Althusser
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Louis Althusser (1918-1990) was an Algerian-French
Structuralist Marxist philosopher.
Althusser's approach to the subject
came from attempts to rethink Marxism, using
structuralism in opposition to
mechanistic thought in a more humanist way, seeking to put conscious activity at
the heart of Marxism in combination with the 'alienation' of people from their
full altruistic potential.
See also
Structuralism,
Lacan
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/
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