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Louis Althusser

French Marxist philosopher1918 to 1990

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student, names Jean Guitton, Jean Hyppolite, and Jean-Toussaint Desanti as teachers, and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Louis Althusser, pictured

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Teachers and mentors3

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    Jean Guitton

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean Hyppolite

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean-Toussaint Desanti

Taught5

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Michel Foucault

    born 1926
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jacques Derrida

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Marta Harnecker

    born 1937
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Bernard-Henri Lévy

    born 1948
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    born 1955

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career3

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