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Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction, pp. 63-91.
John Thompson, Ideology and Modern Culture, pp. 33-44.
Jorge Larrain, The Concept of Ideology, pp. 35-67.
Louis Dupre, Marx’s Social Critique of Culture, pp.216-275.
John Torrance, Karl Marx’s Theory of Ideas, pp. 191-216.
Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, pp. 11-53.
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, ch. 4, pp. 55-71 in the
Oxford Press edition (1977).
January 30
Differing Concepts and Theories of Ideology in the Early Twentieth
Century: From Marx, Engels and Lenin, to Lukacs, Mannheim and
Gramsci
Reading:
Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction, pp. 93-123
David Hawkes, Ideology, chapter 4, pp. 115-120.
Robert Bocock, Hegemony, chapter 2, pp. 40-54.
Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness, read section I of Lukac’s
chapter on “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,” on “the
Phenomenon of Reification.” Available online at http://marxists.org/archive/
lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
Supplementary:
Terry Eagleton, “Ideology and its Vicissitudes in Western Marxism,” in S.
Zizek (ed.), Mapping Ideology, pp. 179-200 (this is a shortened and
abridged version of the Eagleton chapter noted above).
Nicholas Abercrombie, Class Structure and Knowledge, pp. 32-53
John Thompson, Ideology and Modern Culture, ch., 1, pp. 44-52.
Goran Therborn, Critical Theory and the Legacy of Twentieth Century
Marxism, in Bryan turner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory,
pp. 53-82.
Jorge Larrain, The Concept of Ideology, pp. 68-129.
Bertold Brecht, “Against Georg Lukacs,” in Ernest Bloch et al., Aesthetics and
Politics, (Schocken books edition), pp. 68-85.
Gareth Stedman Jones, “The Marxism of the Early Lukacs,” in New Left