The New Critique of Ideology: Lessons from Post-Pinochet Chile - Hardcover

Camargo, Ricardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137329661 ISBN 13: 9781137329660

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

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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Ricardo Camargo is Associate Professor of Social Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, Chile.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137329661
• ISBN 13: 9781137329660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312