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English
Etymology
From Althusser + -ian.
Adjective
Althusserian (comparative more Althusserian, superlative most Althusserian)
- Of or pertaining to Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher.
1997, Judith Butler, “Further Reflections on Conversations of Our Time”, in Diacritics, volume 27, number 1, →DOI:[…] rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Translations
pertaining to Louis Pierre Althusser, Marxist philosopher
Noun
Althusserian (plural Althusserians)
- A proponent of the philosophy of Louis Pierre Althusser.