Ideology: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton
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Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept's torturous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. The book provides lucid accounts of the thought of key Marxist thinkers, as well as of Schopenhauer, show more Nietzsche, Freud and the various post-structuralists. Now updated in the light of current theoretical debates, this essential text by one of our most important contemporary critics clarifies a notoriously confused subject. Ideology is core reading for students and teachers of literature and politics. show lessTags
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A tour of Western ideas of ideology . . . both as purpose-giving mental framework and ideology as false consciousness. Wise enough to see that these two facets can be distinguishable--some beliefs are just false--but that, ultimately, we're all shaped and motivated by beliefs that are essentially ideological--unprovable but nonetheless essential.
A basic book on the subject, perhaps the basic one today, writen with the usual Eagleton flair. Especially interesting the analysis of the ambiguities of the marxian theory of ideology and of the subsequent misunterstandings among marxists
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Terry Eagleton received a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He is a literary critic and a writer. He has written about 50 books including Shakespeare and Society, Criticism and Ideology, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Why Marx Was Right, The Event of Literature, and Across the Pond: An Englishman's show more View of America. He wrote a novel entitled Saints and Scholars, several plays including Saint Oscar, and a memoir entitled The Gatekeeper. He is also the chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1991
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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- 140 — Philosophy & psychology Philosophical schools of thought Specific philosophical schools and viewpoints
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- B823.3 .E17 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern Special topics and schools of philosophy
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