{"product_id":"mapping-ideology-isbn-9781844675548","title":"Mapping Ideology","description":"For a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Mapping Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, \u003ci\u003eMapping Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheodor Adorno\u003c\/b\u003e was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNegative Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Max Horkheimer) \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Althusser\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e (with Etienne Balibar); \u003ci\u003eEssays in Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolitics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli and Us\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichèle Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Oppression Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Social Family\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (1930–2002) was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was the author of many books, most notably \u003ci\u003eDistinction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe State Nobility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomo Academicus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Dews\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He has published widely on contemporary French and German thought, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Disenchantment\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe psychoanalyst \u003cb\u003eJacques Lacan\u003c\/b\u003e (1901–1981) was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. His many published works include \u003ci\u003eEcrits\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Seminars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGöran Therborn\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and is editor and author of \u003ci\u003eInequalities of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsia and Europe in Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBetween Sex and Power\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom Marxism to Post Marxism?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryan S. Turner\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University in England and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Body and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eMedical Power and Social Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and \u003ci\u003eRegulating Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). He is the joint editor with Mike Featherstone of the journal \u003ci\u003eBody \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches medical sociology and the sociology of human rights at Cambridge. He is currently editing the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Dictionary of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e (with Craig Calhoun and Chris Rojek) and the \u003ci\u003eInternational Handbook of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also doing research on rights, learning disabilities, and social inclusion.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301846896869,"sku":"NP9781844675548","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844675548.jpg?v=1767732244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mapping-ideology-isbn-9781844675548","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}