Ideology After Poststructuralism Experiences of Identity in a Globalising World

by Malesevic, Sinisa; MacKenzie, Iain

• ISBN13: 9780745318073
• ISBN10: 074531807X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Author Biography

Sinisa Malesevic is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway. He is author of Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (Frank Cass, 2001) and articles on ethnicity, nationalism and sociological theory.
Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics at The Queen's University of Belfast. He is author of articles on Deleuze and Guattari and co-author of Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction (OUP, 1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: de Tracy's Legacy	1	(10)
Iain MacKenzie
Sinisa Malesevic
Part I - Poststructuralism vs. Ideology
Idea, Event, Ideology	11	(17)
Iain MacKenzie
Ideology and Imaginary: Returning to Althusser	28	(15)
Caroline Williams
A World Beyond Ideology? Strains in Slavoj Zizek's Ideology Critique	43	(21)
Robert Porter
City Life and the Conditions of Possibility of an Ideology-Proof Subject: Simmel, Benjamin and Joyce on Berlin, Paris and Dublin	64	(23)
Kieran Keohane
Part II - Ideology vs. Postructuralism
Rehabilitaing Ideology after Poststructuralism	87	(24)
Sinisa Malesevic
The Dialectics of the Real	111	(23)
Diana Coole
Ideology, Language and Discursive Psychology	134	(23)
Michael Billig
The Birth of the Subject and the Use of Truth: Foucault and Social Critique	157	(14)
Mark Haugaard
Notes on Contributors	171	(2)
Index	173