ISBN:
9781137329677
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113732967X
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9781137329660
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 298 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Parallel Title:
Print version The New Critique of Ideology : Lessons from Post-Pinochet Chile
DDC:
320.01
Keywords:
Habermas, Jürgen
;
Žižek, Slavoj
;
Political science
;
Chile
;
Politics and government
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1988-
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book offers a new ideology critique for political analysis by revisiting Habermas via a Zizekian reading. The book includes an application of the theory to the case of the political consensus reached in Chile's post-Pinochet, 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 Zizek's theory of ideology. Far from assuming their theories are incommensurable, the book argues that it is worth observing Zizek'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 Zizekian 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
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137329660, 2013
Abstract:
PART I: TOWARDS A NEW MODEL OF IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE 1. The Classic Debate on the Theory of Ideology 2. The Contemporary Debate on the Theory of Ideology 3. A Universal Notion of Truth: Habermas avec Zizek 4. The Methodological Framework of the Case Study PART II: CHILE'S POST-PINOCHET: A CASE STUDY 5. The Transformation of Power in Pinochet's Era 6. The Discourse of Class Struggle 7. The Ideological Discourse in Post-Pinochet Chile Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; What is the problem with ideology?; The methodological framework; Outline of the book; Part I: Toward a New Model of Ideology Critique; 1 The Classic Debate on the Theory of Ideology; Marx's notion of ideology revisited; Three approaches of research on ideology; Ideology in the descriptive sense; Ideology in the positive sense; Ideology in the negative sense; Althusser's theory of ideology revisited; Summary; 2 The Contemporary Debate on the Theory of Ideology; The 'Archimedean true point' problem
Description / Table of Contents:
Freeden's methodological approach to ideologyLaclau's non-essentialist notion of ideology; Summary; 3 A Universal Notion of Truth: Habermas avec Žižek; Habermas's inter-subjective approach to the truth; The 'ideal versus the real world'; A Žižekian critique of Habermas's theory of truth; Cynicism and fantasy in Žižek's theory; A critique of Habermas's constitutional patriotism; Toward a universal notion of truth; The fictional 'Real' as a universal truth; Summary; 4 The Methodological Framework of the Case Study; First phase: the socio-historical analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Second phase: formal or discursive analysisThird phase: a symptomatic (re)interpretation; Research design of the case study; Conceptual framework; Justification of the case study; Definitions and assumptions; Empirical research question (ERQ); Discourse; Consensus; Recognition of success; The political economy model; Post-Pinochet Chile (1990-2006); Chilean political elites; Discursive strategies; Class struggle; The (operative) discourse of class struggle; Class struggle as the fictional Real; The denial of class struggle; The denial of the fictional Real; Summary
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Post-Pinochet Chile: A Case Study5 The Transformation of Power in Pinochet's Era; The power structure in Chile pre-Pinochet; The power structure in Allende's government; First phase: the great transformation (1973-81); The changes in the productive structure; The formation of new economic groups; The transformation of social classes; The second phase: the crisis and the recovery; The deepening of the productive structure; The reshaping of power within the economic groups; The legacy of Pinochet's regime; Summary; 6 The Discourse of Class Struggle
Description / Table of Contents:
The discourse of class struggle in Chile pre-1973The socialists: the 'most revolutionary' party; The communists: a conservative proletarian party; The dilemma of the Christian Democrat Party; The radicalization of the oligarchical parties; The military coup and the renovation of politics; The socialist renovation; The 'isolationism' of communists; The 'pragmatization' of the Center; The emergence of a neo-liberal Right; Summary; 7 The Ideological Discourse in Post-Pinochet Chile; Traumas and fantasies of ChPEs; The 'two fears' of ChPEs; One or two models?
Description / Table of Contents:
Income inequality in a 'successful' economy?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137329677
URN:
10.1057/9781137329677
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