Althusserian

Althusserian

English

Etymology

Althusser +‎ -ian

Adjective

Althusserian (comparative more Althusserian, superlative most Althusserian)

1. 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:10.1353/dia.1997.0004:

     […] 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

Portuguese: althusseriano

Noun

Althusserian (plural Althusserians)

1. A proponent of the philosophy of Louis Pierre Althusser.