IdeologyTo study ideology is to ask such questions as: Where do our ideas about society and politics come from? Are these ideas socially determined? If so, what validity can they claim? In this brief yet comprehensive introduction, David McLellan examines the origins of the concept of ideology, analyzes its place in the Marxist and non-Marxist traditions, and assesses the various uses to which it has been put in recent social and political theory, particularly the connection between ideology and the "end of history" debate. Revised and updated, this second edition is for all those who are interested in a clear presentation of the most basic concept in the philosophy of the social sciences. |
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Age of Ideology Althusser analysis approach Belief Systems bourgeois Cambridge capitalism capitalist society Chapter claim concept of ideology conception of history consensus contemporary contrast crisis critical edge cultural David McLellan democratic Destutt de Tracy domination Durkheim élite empirical End of History end of ideology Engels Enlightenment example false consciousness Frankfurt School Freud Fukayama German Ideology Gramsci Habermas Hegel human ibid Ideology and Utopia individual intellectuals interests Karl Mannheim labour language Larrain's legitimate Lenin Levi-Strauss liberal democracy linguistic London Lukacs Mannheim Marx Marxism Marxist Conception Marxist tradition material myth natural science objective particularly philosophical pluralist Political Science Political Thought postmodernism production proletariat psychoanalysis rational reality reason relations relativism religion Revolution Routledge ruling Sartori science of ideas scientific sense social science Sociology of Knowledge structuralist structure struggle study of ideology Theory of Ideology thinkers Totalitarianism Tracy underlying University Press Weber York