Louis Althusser
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Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods
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The Lycée du Parc, where Althusser studied for two years and was influenced by Catholic professors
The main entrance to the École Normale Supérieure on Rue d'Ulm, where Althusser established himself as well-known intellectual
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Structural Marxism
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Structural Marxism is an approach to Marxism based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. It was influential in France during
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…and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990. Althusser is commonly referred to as a structural Marxist, although his relationship to other schools of French structuralism is not a simple affiliation and he was critical of many aspects of structuralism…
Jean-Paul Sartre, whose blend of existentialism and Marxist humanism was a primary target of Althusser's critique and the structural Marxist school
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E. P. Thompson, a major critic of structural Marxism