The Marxist Conception of Ideology: A Critical Essay (LSE Monographs in International Studies)

The Encyclopedie, the work mainly of men whose political convictions the ideologues adopted and extended, does not, as is well known, contain the word ideologie. Cover 1 Title 2 TABLE of CONTENTS 6 A Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 14 PART I - THE SIN OF OVERSTATEMENT 24 1 - The Problem and The Basic Contradiction 26 2 - The Facets of Orthodox Marxist Doctrine 36 3 - Distorted and Adequate Thought 59 4 - The Pressure of Facts 71 PART II - THE REDEMPTION OF IDEOLOGY 92 5 - Unacknowledged and Acknowledged Modification 94 6 - An Interim Balance 118 7 - Ideology Beyond Economic Causation 131 8 - The Way Out of The Vicious Circle - Mannheim 142 PART III - PERSPECTIVES, CHANGING AND PERSISTING 162 9 - Class and Ideology 164 10 - Ideological Pluralism 180 11 - The Range and Depth of Analogy 195 Conclusion 215 Bibliography 224 Index 232

a Comprehensive And Systematic Account Of The Ways In Which Marx And Engels And Their Immediate Followers Made Use Of The Conception Of Ideology.

Martin Seliger. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [211]-218.