Louis Althusser
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Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and influential theories on ideology and state apparatuses.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis Althusser canonical | 57 |
| Althusser | 3 |
| Louis Althusser's intellectual circle | 1 |
| Louis Pierre Althusser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2015981 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Althusser Context triple: [Western Marxism, associatedWith, Louis Althusser]
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Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential theories on social capital, habitus, and the reproduction of social inequality.
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Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit scholar, historian, and cultural theorist best known for his work "The Practice of Everyday Life," which explores how ordinary people tactically navigate and subvert structures of power in daily life.
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and critical theorist associated with the Frankfurt School, known for his critiques of advanced industrial society and influential works such as "One-Dimensional Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Althusser Target entity description: Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and influential theories on ideology and state apparatuses.
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A.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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B.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential theories on social capital, habitus, and the reproduction of social inequality.
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C.
Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit scholar, historian, and cultural theorist best known for his work "The Practice of Everyday Life," which explores how ordinary people tactically navigate and subvert structures of power in daily life.
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D.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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E.
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher and critical theorist associated with the Frankfurt School, known for his critiques of advanced industrial society and influential works such as "One-Dimensional Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Louis Althusser Description of subject: Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and influential theories on ideology and state apparatuses.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Louis Althusser
linked to: Louis Althusser
subject linked to:
The New Historicism
subject linked to:
killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980
subject linked to:
killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980
linked to: Louis Althusser