Synopses & Reviews
This book offers an original and comprehensive formulation of a new ideology critique for political analysis. Going beyond the reiterative attempts of declaring the 'death of ideology', the book - after revisiting the main developments of the theory of ideology - presents a productive critique of Habermas's theory of communicative action viewed through Slavoj Žižek's theory of ideology. Far from assuming their theories are incommensurable, the book argues that it is worth observing Žižek's theoretical endeavor as a 'supplementary' overcoming of Habermas's proposal. This will eventually show that by using a fictional notion of the Real taken from a Žižekian reading of Lacan, a new ideology critique, which affirms a universal truth for a political situation, becomes possible. This new model of ideology critique is applied to the political consensus reached in Chile's post-Pinochet.
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Synopsis
This book offers a new ideology critique for political analysis by revisiting Habermas via a i ekian reading. The book includes an application of the theory to the case of the political consensus reached in Chile's post-Pinochet."
About the Author
Ricardo Camargo is Associate Professor of Social Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, Chile.
Table of Contents
PART I: TOWARDS A NEW MODEL OF IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE
1. The Classic Debate on the Theory of Ideology
2. The Contemporary Debate on the Theory of Ideology
3. A Universal Notion of Truth: Habermas avec Žižek
4. The Methodological Framework of the Case Study
PART II: CHILE'S POST-PINOCHET: A CASE STUDY
5. The Transformation of Power in Pinochet's Era
6. The Discourse of Class Struggle
7. The Ideological Discourse in Post-Pinochet Chile
Conclusion