Illustrate ideology

Author: Slavoj ?i?ek
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Slavoj ?i?ek, a Slovenian scholar hailed as a "dark horse" who broke into Western academia, is celebrated for his work. The Sublime Object of Ideology is a compilation of discussions on ideology by fourteen Western scholars, including ?i?ek himself, selected and edited by him. As the title suggests, ?i?ek aims to map out a picture of Western Marxism's understanding of ideology since Adorno through this effort. Except for the newly written "Introduction," the rest of the selected texts are originally published and can stand alone as chapters, but the editor clearly hopes readers will read them together. With an ingenious arrangement in the form of chapters, they form an organic whole. ?i?ek includes the chapter from his acclaimed work The Sublime Object of Ideology as the last chapter of this book. Is this an attempt to once again emphasize the proposition he borrowed from Lacan—"truth comes from misrecognition"? We believe readers will naturally arrive at an answer to this question after reading the entire book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Specter of Ideology
Chapter The Message in the Bottle
Chapter 2 Adorno, Post-structuralism, and the Critique of Identity
Chapter 3 The Critique of Instrumental Reason
Chapter 4 The Mirror of the Formation of the "I"—Stages
Chapter 5 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes on a Research)
Chapter 6 The (False) Recognition Mechanism of Ideology
Chapter 7 Determinism and Indeterminacy in Ideological Theory
Chapter 8 Some New Questions on Subjectivity
Chapter 9 Ideology in Western Marxism and Its Rise and Fall
Chapter 10 Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: A Pragmatic View
Chapter 11 Ideology, Politics, Hegemony: From Gramsci to Laclau and Mouffe
Chapter 12 Belief and Ordinary Life: An Interview
Chapter 13 Postmodernism and the Market
Chapter 14 How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?
Sources of the Texts
Appendix