Mapping IdeologySlavoj Zizek For a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice. Mapping Ideology is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION The Spectre of Ideology | 1 |
Messages in a Bottle | 34 |
Adorno PostStructuralism and the Critique | 46 |
The Critique of Instrumental Reason | 66 |
The Mirrorphase as Formative of the Function | 93 |
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Notes | 100 |
The Mechanism of Ideological Misrecognition | 141 |
Determinacy and Indeterminacy in the Theory | 152 |
The New Questions of Subjectivity | 167 |
Ideology and its Vicissitudes in Western Marxism | 179 |
An Interview | 265 |
l8 Postmodernism and the Market | 278 |
How Did Marx Invent the Symptom? | 296 |
List of Sources | 332 |
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