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[[Image:MappingIdeologyMapping.Ideology.jpg|300px|right]]Not so long ago, the term “ideology” was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a [[claim ]] to [[know ]] a [[truth ]] beyond [[ideology]], a radically unfashionable [[position]]. What then explains the sudden revival of interest in grappling with the questions that 'ideology' poses to [[social ]] and [[cultural ]] [[theory]], as well as to [[political ]] [[practice]]?

''[[Mapping ]] Ideology'' presents a comprehensive sampling of the most important contemporary [[writing ]] on the [[subject]]. Slavoj [[Zizek]]'s introductory essay surveys the [[development ]] of the [[concept ]] from [[Marx ]] to the [[present]]. Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib assess the decisive contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt [[School]]. A different [[tradition ]] is revealed in an essay by the [[French ]] post-[[structuralist ]] Michel Pêcheux, while the study of ideology is exemplified in classic [[texts ]] by Theodor [[Adorno]], Jacques [[Lacan ]] and Louis [[Althusser]]. An intersection of Gramscian and Althusserian motifs appears in a now famous debate over 'the dominant ideology [[thesis]]', reprinted here. Pierre Bourdieu succinctly formulates his departure from this tradition in an interview with Eagleton. Further readings of the [[ideological ]] are explored by [[Richard Rorty ]] and Michèle Barrett. Finally Fredric [[Jameson ]] supplies an authoritative [[statement ]] of the [[nature ]] and position of the ideological in late [[capitalist ]] [[society]]. ''Mapping Ideology'' is an invaluable [[guide ]] to what is now the most [[dynamic ]] field of cultural theory.

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