Ideology: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Eagleton, Terry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860915387 ISBN 13 : 9780860915386

Editeur : Verso Books, 1991

Synopsis

'His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.'
Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid and totalizing exception to their own common sense. For some, the concept now seems too ubiquitous to be meaningful; for others, too cohesive for a world of infinite difference. Here, in a book written for both newcomers to the topic and those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept's tortuous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.
Ideology provides lucid interpretations of the thought of key Marxist thinkers and of others such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud and the various poststructuralists. As well as clarifying a notoriously confused topic, this new work by one of our most important contemporary critics is a controversial political intervention into current theoretical debates. It will be essential reading for students and teachers of literature and politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860915387
• ISBN 13: 9780860915386
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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