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Louis Althusser  

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  • Louis Althusser (1918–1990), a French Marxist philosopher, was a major intellectual figure during the 1960s and 1970s and significantly influenced the rereading of Marx and the development of a distinctive critical approach to Marxist theory and practice. Biography and Major Works Louis Althusser was born in 1918 in the city of Birmandreïs, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Althusser, Louis]

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