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Ideology / David Hawkes.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The new critical idiomPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: viii, 212 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0415290112 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415290120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 21 HAW
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Contents:
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page SERIES EDITOR’ S PREFACE PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Ideology and Globalization 1: ORIGINS IDOLATRY IRRATIONALISM THE DAWN OF MODERNITY: LUTHER AND MACHIAVELLI 2: 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 3: IDEALISM THE CARTESIAN SELF ‘RAVING WITH REASON’: KANT AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC HEGEL AND THE DIALECTIC THE YOUNG HEGELIANS 4: MARXISM MARX AND MATERIALISM MONEY, ALIENATION AND REPRESENTATION THE MATERIALIST FALLACY THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW: GEORG LUKÁCS GRAMSCI AND HEGEMONY 5: POST-MARXISM ALTHUSSER AND MATERIALISM A MATERIALIST AESTHETIC? THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE PRIMITIVE A CRISIS OF FAITH: STRUCTURALISM AND AFTER 6: POSTMODERNISM NIETZSCHE: THE PRECURSOR MICHEL FOUCAULT: DEUS ABSCONDITUS DEBORD AND BAUDRILLARD LIVING A LIE: ŽIZŽEK AND PRACTICAL FETISHISM THE LATE ADORNO 7: IDEOLOGY AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER CAPITAL AND EMPIRE DIALECTIC AND DIFFERENCE GLOSSARY FURTHER READING BIBLOGRAPHY
Summary: Any literary student who is new to the terminology and uses of critical terms will welcome David Hawkes' Ideology, a comprehensive and concise overview. In refreshingly clear and jargon-free prose, Hawkes: * Considers the myriad definitions and meanings of ideology * Traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Martin Luther and Machiavelli to present-day debates in feminism and psychoanalysis * Provides literary examples and illustrations to illuminate and clarify his argument * Asks whether, in the face of post-war capitalism and postmodernism, the ideology debate is obsolete, or is still very much relevant in contemporary debates
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
SERIES EDITOR’ S PREFACE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Ideology and Globalization
1: ORIGINS
IDOLATRY
IRRATIONALISM
THE DAWN OF MODERNITY: LUTHER AND MACHIAVELLI
2: 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
3: IDEALISM
THE CARTESIAN SELF
‘RAVING WITH REASON’: KANT AND ENLIGHTENMENT
THE IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC
HEGEL AND THE DIALECTIC
THE YOUNG HEGELIANS
4: MARXISM
MARX AND MATERIALISM
MONEY, ALIENATION AND REPRESENTATION
THE MATERIALIST FALLACY
THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW: GEORG LUKÁCS
GRAMSCI AND HEGEMONY
5: POST-MARXISM
ALTHUSSER AND MATERIALISM
A MATERIALIST AESTHETIC?
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL
ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE PRIMITIVE
A CRISIS OF FAITH: STRUCTURALISM AND AFTER
6: POSTMODERNISM
NIETZSCHE: THE PRECURSOR
MICHEL FOUCAULT: DEUS ABSCONDITUS
DEBORD AND BAUDRILLARD
LIVING A LIE: ŽIZŽEK AND PRACTICAL FETISHISM
THE LATE ADORNO
7: IDEOLOGY AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER
CAPITAL AND EMPIRE
DIALECTIC AND DIFFERENCE
GLOSSARY
FURTHER READING
BIBLOGRAPHY

Any literary student who is new to the terminology and uses of critical terms will welcome David Hawkes' Ideology, a comprehensive and concise overview. In refreshingly clear and jargon-free prose, Hawkes: * Considers the myriad definitions and meanings of ideology * Traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Martin Luther and Machiavelli to present-day debates in feminism and psychoanalysis * Provides literary examples and illustrations to illuminate and clarify his argument * Asks whether, in the face of post-war capitalism and postmodernism, the ideology debate is obsolete, or is still very much relevant in contemporary debates

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