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The Form of Ideology - Investigations into the Sense of Ideological Reasoning with a View to Giving an Account of its Place in Political Life (Hardcover)
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The Form of Ideology - Investigations into the Sense of Ideological Reasoning with a View to Giving an Account of its Place in Political Life (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
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First published in 1980. Of all the concepts deployed in the study
of politics the application of the concept of ideology is by far
the least precise. Those who have sought to clarify its meaning
have concluded that ideology is not an independent constituent of
political life and indispensable to an adequate representation of
the form of political association; but, rather, a kind of
epiphenomenal, parasitic and irrational thought that misguides the
unfortunate, ignorant or confused in the pursuit of the
unobtainable. The Form of Ideology attempts to demonstrate that
this view is wholly mistaken. It offers students an understanding
of ideology free from the conceptual confusion involved in the
belief that ideology is in any sense a theory that can be put into
practice. In addition, it argues that ideology is not a defective
theory of politics, because, properly understood, ideology is not
theoretical understanding of the world at all. It is not the
product of any kind of investigation yielding information. The Form
of Ideology permits beliefs in ideological claims, not proof of
ideological assertions. It affords political inspiration and
aspirations rather than judgement and knowledge. If the argument in
this book succeeds in demonstrating the truth of this conclusion
then the study of politics must take a completely new direction.
The first three chapters explore the grounds for the methodological
break the group has made with previous investigations and offer a
critique of some current misconceptions; the remaining three
chapters mark out the limits of the intelligibility of ideology
within the context of political thought and life following the
direction indicated by the previous three. The book's concern will
be of central interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
courses on ideology, the history of political thought, political
theory and political movements in departments of political science,
sociology, philosophy and history; it is unique in that it offers
an account of the form of ideological understanding seen as a mode
of thought in its own right.
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