Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins (Culture Texts)

Ideology And Power In The Age Of Lenin In Ruins / Arthur And Marilouise Kroker -- What Is To Be Done? Art And Politics After The Fall... / Mark Lewis -- Four Theses On Ideology / Anthony Giddens -- The Impossibility Of Society / Ernesto Laclau -- La Langue Introuvable / Michel Pecheux And Francoise Gadet -- Some Conditions For Revolutionizing Late Capitalist Society / Jurgen Habermas -- On The Genesis Of Ideology In Modern Societies / Claude Lefort -- Concepts Of Ideology In Marx / Gyorgy Markus -- Ideology And The Weltanshauung Of The Intellectuals / Zygmunt Bauman -- Cynical Power : The Fetishism Of The Sign / Arthur Kroker And Charles Levin -- When Bataille Attacked The Metaphysical Principle Of Economy / Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard's Seduction / Brian Singer -- Sign And Commodity : Aspects Of The Cultural Dynamic Of Advanced Capitalism / Andrew Wernick -- Baudrillard, Critical Theory And Psychoanalysis / Charles Levin -- Hobbes And/or North : Rhetoric Of American National Security / Frederick M. Dolan -- The Dark Night Of The Liberal Spirit And The Dawn Of The Savage / Michael A. Weinstein -- Ressentiment And Postmodern Politics / Michael Dorland -- Promotional Culture / Andrew Wernick -- We Objects Object / Eileen Manion -- The End(s) Of Woman / N. Ricci. Edited And Introduced By Arthur And Marilouise Kroker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xv What is to be Done....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Four Theses on Ideology....Pages 21-24 The Impossibility of Society....Pages 24-27 La Langue Introuvable....Pages 27-34 Some Conditions for Revolutionizing Late Capitalist Societies [1968]....Pages 35-45 On the Genesis of Ideology in Modern Societies....Pages 46-86 Concepts of Ideology in Marx....Pages 87-106 Ideology and the Weltanschauung of the Intellectuals....Pages 107-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Cynical Power: The Fetishism of the Sign....Pages 123-134 When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy....Pages 135-138 Baudrillard’s Seduction....Pages 139-151 Sign and Commodity: Aspects of the Cultural Dynamic of Advanced Capitalism....Pages 152-169 Baudrillard, Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis....Pages 170-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Hobbes and/or North: The Rhetoric of American National Security....Pages 191-209 The Dark Night of the Liberal Spirit and the Dawn of the Savage....Pages 210-224 A Thoroughly Hidden Country: Ressentiment, Canadian Nationalism, Canadian Culture....Pages 225-259 Promotional Culture....Pages 260-281 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 We Objects Object: Pornography and the Women’s Movement....Pages 285-300 The End/s of Woman....Pages 301-317 Thinking anew the theory and practice of democratic politics, the essays in this book put into question the meaning of ideology (as false consciousness) and the meaning of power (as seduction). Contributors include Anthony Giddens, Juergen Habermas, Claude Lefort and Zygmunt Bauman.