Ideology After Poststructuralism
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Ideology After Poststructuralism

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Ideology After Poststructuralism

About this book

Ideology is a hotly disputed term in social and political theory. It continues to generate intellectual dispute more than 200 years after its birth in the fervour of the French Revolution. Most recently, post-structuralists such as Foucault and Deleuze launched a strident critique claiming that 'there is no such thing as ideology', creating a theoretical environment which polarises critical opinion either for or against ideology. Ideology after Poststructuralism aims to end this culture of antagonism by bringing together leading scholars in the field to establish a dialogue between post-structuralism and ideology critique. For the post-structuralists there is a need to generate a sensitive account of ideology so as to bolster their claim that they have a significant contribution to make to social and political criticism. For the ideology theorists there is a need to engage with the post-structuralist critique of ideology without taking the assumptions that post-structuralists have so thoroughly criticised. The essays in this book show how the intellectual posturing of recent decades has closed off debate to the detriment of both post-structuralism and ideology critique.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgement
  3. Introduction: de Tracy's Legacy
  4. PART I: Poststructuralism vs. Ideology
  5. 1. Idea, Event, Ideology
  6. 2. Ideology and Imaginary: Returning to Althusser
  7. 3. A World Beyond Ideology? Strains in Slavoj Zizek's Ideology Critique
  8. 4. City Life and the Conditions of Possibility of an Ideology-Proof Subject: Simmel, Benjamin and Joyce on Ber
  9. PART II: Ideology vs. Poststructuralism
  10. 5. Rehabilitating Ideology after Poststructuralism
  11. 6. The Dialectics of the Real
  12. 7. Ideology, Language and Discursive Psychology
  13. 8. The Birth of the Subject and the Use of Truth: Foucault and Social Critique
  14. Notes on Contributors
  15. Index