The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology,9781859842126

The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology

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ISBN13: 9781859842126
ISBN10: 1859842127
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-17
Publisher(s): Verso
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Summary

GAoran Therborn's study is an original and decisive contribution to the contemporary debate on the central Marxist concept of ideology. Beginning with some critical reflections on Louis Althusser's writings of the late sixties, Therborn develops a theory of the formation of human subjects; considers the problem of ideological change and the ideological construction of classes; and turns finally to questions of state power and political struggle.

Author Biography

Göran Therborn holds the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and is editor and author of Inequalities of the World, Asia and Europe in Globalization, Between Sex and Power and From Marxism to Post Marxism?

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction: Demarcations and Departures 1(14)
I. The Ideological Formation of Human Subjects
15(16)
1. The General Dialectic of Ideology
15(5)
2. Subjectivity and Role: a Brief Digression on Role Theory
20(2)
3. The Ideological Universe: the Dimensions of Human Subjectivity
22(5)
4. Ego- and Alter-Ideologies
27(4)
II. The Historical Materialism of Ideologies
31(22)
1. The Structure of Ideological Systems
32(8)
2. The Generation of Ideologies and Material Change
40(13)
III. The Ideological Constitution of Classes
53(24)
1. Class Ego-Ideologies
55(6)
2. Class Alter-Ideologies and the Subjects of Class Struggle and Collaboration
61(5)
3. Class and Non-Class Ideologies
66(6)
4. Elaborations and Permutations of Class Ideologies
72(5)
IV. The Social Order of Ideologies
77(16)
1. The Social Process of Ideology
77(4)
2. The Social Organization of Ideological Discourse
81(3)
3. Ideological Apparatuses
84(9)
V. Ideology and Political Power
93(22)
1. Forms of Ideological Domination
93(7)
2. Legitimacy, Consensus, Class Consciousness: Archaisms and Problems in Political Theory
100(15)
VI. Social Change and the Power of Ideology
115(12)
1. Processes of Ideological Mobilization
115(9)
2. Political Subjects and Ideological Drift
124(3)
Notes 127

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