Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology

by Minogue,Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780765803658
• ISBN10: 0765803658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Kenneth Minogue is emeritus professor of political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Introduction to the Second Edition	p. xvii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxxvii
Introduction to the 1st edition	p. 1
Identification	p. 9
A Science of Social Conditions	p. 9
Society as a System of Consequences	p. 16
The Secret of the Human World	p. 25
Modernity as Status Quo	p. 38
Some Problems of Specification	p. 47
Ideology as Social Criticism	p. 51
The Critical Thrust	p. 51
Genus and Species	p. 59
The Rhetoric of Social Criticism	p. 68
The Claim to Superiority	p. 75
From Criticism to Melodrama	p. 81
The Explanatory Model	p. 87
Functional and Rational Explanations	p. 87
Structure's Determination of Experience	p. 97
Accounting for Change	p. 103
The Mediation of Social Conditions	p. 109
The Historical Dimension	p. 115
The Vertical Integration of the Intellect	p. 122
From Science to Rhetoric	p. 131
Ideology and the Academic World	p. 131
Philosophy, Science, and the Rhetoric of Unmasking	p. 138
Disciplinary Dominoes	p. 146
The Ideological Revelation	p. 153
The Character of Revelation	p. 153
The Potency of Secrecy	p. 159
The Ground of Revelation	p. 167
A Mirror of Reality	p. 177
The Concept of Mind	p. 191
The Problem of the Ideological Terminus	p. 191
The Ideological View of Mind	p. 197
Species-man as Community	p. 205
Ideology as Politics	p. 217
Ideology and Politics Distinguished	p. 217
The Postulate of Equality	p. 222
The Postulate of Complementarity	p. 227
The Ideological Version of Political Life	p. 237
The Dissolution of Political Values	p. 237
Interests	p. 241
The Ideological Constituency	p. 246
The Quest for Power	p. 253
Neutrality and the State	p. 263
Forward and Reverse Gear in Ideological Argument	p. 263
The Ideological Theory of the State	p. 267
The Ideological Reproach	p. 274
Conclusion	p. 289
The Paradoxes of Ideology	p. 289
Ideology and Modernity	p. 292
Patterns of Confrontation	p. 296
Critical Essays: Kenneth Minogue, the Individual, and Ideologies of Alienation	p. 303
Ideology and the Left	p. 317
Notes	p. 331
Index (forthcoming)	p. 353
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