This is a concise student guide to the myriad definitions and meanings of "ideology". Fully revised, this edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11th.
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This is a concise student guide to the myriad definitions and meanings of "ideology". Fully revised, this edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11th.
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David Hawkes traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, asking why ideology matters, and examining ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism. Fully revised, this edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index, fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.
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'I have used [Ideology] in my classroom, and can testify that it is immensely useful for both the teacher and the taught in dealing with this difficult and crucial concept.' - In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism
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David Hawkes teaches at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. His recent publications include Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature 1580-1680.
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David Hawkes traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, asking why ideology matters, and examining ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism. Fully revised, this edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index, fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.
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