By John B. Thompson
In this quantity John B. Thompson examines the various impressive modern contributions to the research of ideology. He focuses totally on ecu social theorists and philosophers, delivering concise and demanding value determinations in their paintings. as well as assessing the contributions of the well known thinkers, reminiscent of Habermas and Ricoeur, Thompson introduces the reader to a wealthy number of authors who've been overlooked within the English-speaking global: Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Pecheux, Jean Pierre Faye.
The paintings of those authors is analysed with a optimistic aim:? via a sympathetic evaluation in their views. Thompson formulates the weather of a singular account of ideology. via addressing noticeable and methodological matters in addition to summary questions of justification and critique, this account seeks to combine sociological and philosophical concerns in a unified framework for the research of ideology. Studies within the concept of Ideology could be crucial examining for a person attracted to an important advancements in eu philosophy and glossy social thought.
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During this quantity John B. Thompson examines a number of the remarkable modern contributions to the learn of ideology. He focuses totally on ecu social theorists and philosophers, supplying concise and demanding value determinations in their paintings. as well as assessing the contributions of the well known thinkers, akin to Habermas and Ricoeur, Thompson introduces the reader to a wealthy number of authors who've been overlooked within the English-speaking international: Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Pecheux, Jean Pierre Faye.
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Studies in the Theory of Ideology 25 II Ideology and the imaginary The relations between the notion of the social imaginary and the phenomenon of ideology are explored in an important essay by Lefort. 14 Like Castoriadis, Lefort adopts a critical approach to the work of Marx, seeing it as both a source of invaluable insights and an expression of naturalistic illusions. Marx fonnulated, rightly in Lefort's view, the problem of ideology in terms which precluded the reduction of ideology to the di scourse of the bourgeoisie.
11 The new ideology depends crucially on the mass media, by means of which the implicit homogenization of the social field is achieved. The broadcasting of debates and discussions dealing with all aspects of life, from science and politics to art, cookery and sex, creates the impression that the social relation is fully reciprocal, that speech circulates without internal obstacles and constraints. The word of the expen appears as anonymous and neutral, expressing and diffusing objective knowledge; but at the same time it singularizes itself, assumes the attributes of the person in order to reach an audience which, in spite of its mass and dispersion, is brought together by the very proximity and familiarity of the one who speaks.
Nourished by kinship relations and tradition, these everyday social practices playa vital role in the stabilization of the social order; explicit discourses of legitimation, in ' precapitalist' as well as capitalist societies, are probably of greater significance for intefrating the ruling elite than for stabilizing the society as a whole. 2 On the other hand, it seems equally misleading to contend that social division in capitalist societi es is dissimulated within the social world, as if this dissimulation were entirely freed of 'transcendent reference'.