Ideology

Ideology

by Eagleton, Terry

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This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with the first English translations of some of the writing of the French founder of the concept in the eighteenth century. They then move from the enlightenment to Hegel and Marxism, with particular emphasis…

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  • Full title :Ideology / Terry Eagleton.

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This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with the first English translations of some of the writing of the French founder of the concept in the eighteenth century. They then move from the enlightenment to Hegel and Marxism, with particular emphasis on Marx and Engels themselves. They also look at other eighteenth-century traditions of thought such.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

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Notes

17. Marxism and Literary History.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (596 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317891956, 1317891953, 1306980496, 9781306980494
  • oclc:ocn884647614
  • LC Classification:B823.3
  • Dewey Decimal:140

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Ideology and Enlightenment; 2 The Marxist heritage; 3 Ideology and irrationalism; Notes; Part One: The Classical Tradition; 1. Selected Texts; The fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof; Notes; 2. Class Consciousness; Notes; 3. Ideology and Utopia; Definition of concepts; The concept ideology in historical perspective; From the particular to the total conception of ideology; The transition from the theory of ideology to the sociology of knowledge; Notes.

4. The Epistemology of SociologySubjectivity and objectivity: the establishing of facts and values; Structures and world views; Self-regulation and progress -- accommodation and assimilation; Isolating the object of study; Real consciousness and possible consciousness; Comprehension and explanation; The starting points of research: progress from the abstract to the concrete; Determinism and equilibrium; Notes; Part Two: Althusser and After; 5. Selected Texts; On the reproduction of the relations of production; On ideology; Ideology has no history.

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