Althusserian

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1. Of or pertaining to Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher.

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   […] 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.

   1997, Judith Butler, “Further Reflections on Conversations of Our Time”, in Diacritics, volume 27, number 1, →DOI

plural Althusserians

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