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=====Book Description=====
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Not so long ago, the term “ideology” was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a claim to know a truth beyond ideology, a radically unfashionable position. What then explains the sudden revival of interest in grappling with the questions that 'ideology' poses to social and cultural theory, as well as to political practice?
''Mapping Ideology'' presents a comprehensive sampling of the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Slavoj Zizek's introductory essay surveys the development of the concept from Marx to the present. Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib assess the decisive contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School. A different tradition is revealed in an essay by the French post-structuralist Michel Pêcheux, while the study of ideology is exemplified in classic texts by Theodor Adorno, Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser. An intersection of Gramscian and Althusserian motifs appears in a now famous debate over 'the dominant ideology thesis', reprinted here. Pierre Bourdieu succinctly formulates his departure from this tradition in an interview with Eagleton. Further readings of the ideological are explored by Richard Rorty and Michèle Barrett. Finally Fredric Jameson supplies an authoritative statement of the nature and position of the ideological in late capitalist society. ''Mapping Ideology'' is an invaluable guide to what is now the most dynamic field of cultural theory.
=====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, SSlavoj]]. (ed.) (1994) '''''[[Mapping Ideology, ]]'''''. London and ; New York: Verso.Bringing together a host of contemporary analyses of ideologyJanuary 1995, Hardcover, 352 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859849555. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849555/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849555/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca],as well as some classic texts from the recent past[http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849555/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], this book alsocontains two contributions from Žižek[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849555/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon. One of these is an editedversion of Chapter 1 in The Sublime Object of Ideology and the other isan original essayfr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849555/nosub04-21/ Amazon. This essay is perhaps Žižek's most succinct and cogentexploration of the concept of ideologyfr]</small> or Verso. His basic thesis is that ideologyfunctions as a kind of spectre concealing the gap between the Real andthe SymbolicJanuary 1995, Paperback, 288 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859840558. The value of this book (from a Žižekian point of view)is that <small>Buy it allows the reader to compare Žižek's thesis with Althusser'sclassic essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840558/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840558/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840558/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840558/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840558/nosub04- the other21/ Amazon.fr].</small>main theory of ideology which utilizes Lacan's work.|}
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