This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.Ideology: traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day asks why ideology matters examines ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism.With plenty of clear examples to illuminate the discussion, Ideology offers an accessible introduction to this controversial and widely debated critical concept.
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ISBN:0415290112 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN:0415290120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description:print viii, 212 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher:London ; New York : Routledge, c2003, c1996.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: ideology and globalization -- Origins -- Idolatry -- Irrationalism -- The dawn of modernity: Luther and Machiavelli -- Empiricism -- Milton and the English revolution -- Hobbes, Locke, Smith and English empiricism -- The French connection: Condillac, Helvetius and Holbach -- Rousseau, revolution, reflection -- Destutt de Tracy and the invention of ideology -- Idealism -- The Cartesian self -- 'Raving with reason': Kant and enlightenment -- The ideology of the aesthetic -- Hegel and the dialectic -- The young Hegelians -- Marxism -- Marx and materialism -- Money, alienation and representation -- The materialist fallacy -- The retreat from Moscow: Georg Lukacs -- Gramsci and hegemony -- Post-Marxism -- Althusser and materialism -- A materialist aesthetic? -- Enlightenment and the ideology of the primitive -- A crisis of faith: Structuralism and after -- Postmodernism -- Nietzsche: the precursor -- Michel Foucault: Deus absconditus -- Debord and Baudrillard -- Living a lie: Zizek and practical fetishism -- The late adorno -- Ideology after 11 September -- Capital and empire -- Dialectic and difference -- Glossary -- Further reading.
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