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\nFirst published by Verso 1991◎Verso 1991All rights reserved  \nVerso  \nUK:6Meard Street,London W1V 3HRUSA:29 West 35th Street,New York,NY 10001-2291  \nVerso is the imprint of New Left Books  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nEagleton,Terry,1943-  \nIdeology;an introduction.  \n1.Ideologies  \n1.Tidle140  \nISBN 0-86091-319-8  \nISBN0-86091-538-7 pbk  \nUS Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nEagleton,Tery,1943-  \nIdeology:anintroduction/Terry Eagleton,  \nP.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index,ISBN0-86091-319-8,-ISBN 0-86091-538-7(pbk.)  \n1.Ideology-History.   ITicle.  \nB823.3.E171991  \n140-dc20  \nTypeset by Leaper&Gard Ltd,Great BritainPrinted and bound in Finland by Wermer Söderstrom Oy  \nFor Norman Feltes  \nCONTENTS  \nFurther Reading 233  \nIndex 235  \nConsider,as a final example,the attirude of contemporary Americanliberals to the unending hopelessness and misery of the lives of theyoung blacks in American cities.Do we say that these people must behelped because they are our fellow human beings?We may,but it ismuch more persuasive,morally as well as politically,to describe themas our fellow Americans-to insist that it is outrageous that an Americanshould live wichout hope.  \nRICHARD RoRTY,Contingency,Irony,and Solidarity  \nOn the uselessness of che notion of ideology,seeRaymond Gcuss,The ldea ofa Critical Theory  \nRiCHARD RoRTY,Contingency,Irony,and Solidarity  \n# INT R ODUCTION\n\nCONSIDER the following paradox.The last decade has witnessed a remark-able resurgence of ideological movements throughout the world.In theMiddle East,Islamic fundamentalism has emerged as a potent political force.In the so-called Third World,and in one region of the British Isles,revolu-tionary nationalism continues to join battle with imperialist power.In someof the post-capitalist states of the Eastern bloc,a still tenacious neo-Stalinismremains locked in combat wich an array of oppositional forces.The mostpowerful capitalist nation in history has been swept from end to end by apeculiarly noxious brand of Christian Evangelicalism.Throughout thisperiod,Britain has suffered the most ideologically aggressive and explicitregime of living political memory,in a sociery which traditionally prefers itsruling values to remain implicit and oblique.Meanwhile,somewhere on theleft bank,it is announced that the concept of ideology is now obsolete.  \nHow are we to account for this absurdity?Why is it that in a worldracked by ideological conflict,the very notion of ideology has evaporatedwithout trace from the writings of postmodernism and post-structuralism?The theoretical clue ro this conundrum is a topic that shall concern us inthis book.Very briefly,I argue that three key docrines of postmodernistthought have conspired to discredit the classical concept of ideology.Thefirst of these doctrines turns on a rejection of the notion of representation-in fact,a rejection of an empiricist model of representation,in which the","cbCaife7WcvolyUh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaife7WcvolyUh","pdf",6282149,258,"English","# Introduction\n## The paradox of ideology’s return and declared obsolescence\n## Postmodernist doctrines and the discrediting of classical ideology","[{\"question\":\"What paradox does the introduction present about ideology?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that ideological movements have resurged globally, yet the concept of ideology is claimed to be obsolete in postmodern and post-structural thought.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the book treat ideology as a theoretical problem?\",\"answer\":\"Because ideology seems to disappear from writings despite the world being marked by ongoing ideological conflicts.\"},{\"question\":\"What broad explanation is offered for the conundrum?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction argues that three key doctrines of postmodernist thought work together to discredit the classical concept of ideology, starting with a rejection of representation.\"}]","Ideology - An Introduction | PDF",1789941120,397]