Ideology Study Guide

by Ralph Dumain

“Tryin' to make it real—compared to what?”
   — “Compared to What?” by Eugene McDaniels

Grouped here are various pages on this site which serve as reference material for the study of ideology. No claims are made for the definitiveness of any of these views or sources, and no particular coherence to this assemblage of material should be assumed.

• Ideology: Points to Ponder
• Ideology: Definitions & Approaches (Terry Eagleton's list)
• "Ideology" by Raymond Williams
• Concepts of Ideology (1):
  On the history of the term from Destutt de Tracy to Marx, by Arne Naess
  
• Concepts of Ideology (2):
  Definitions of the term "ideology" today, by Arne Naess
• Ideology: My Selected Bibliography
• Bibliography: Ideology by David McLellan
• Jeff Schmidt on Ideology and Professionals
• Ideology: Descriptive, Pejorative, Positive Views, by Raymond Geuss
     1. Ideology in the Descriptive Sense
     2. Ideology in the Pejorative Sense
     3. Ideology in the Positive Sense
  
• "Ideology" by Jorge Larrain
• Contents and Introduction to The Concept of Ideology by Jorge Larrain
• Ideology (Frankfurt Institute for Social Research)
• The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology by Alvin W. Gouldner
• Reification by Gajo Petrović
• Antonio Gramsci on the essence of dialectical method
• Karl Marx on commonsense, unity, & distinction
• Karl Marx vs. Cynical Reason: On Suppositions of Naked Self-Interest
• Marx on Science, Religion, Historical Method
• "Dialectics Not a Sociology of Knowledge" by Theodor W. Adorno
• "Ideal Superstructures" by Derek Sayer
• The German Ideology After 150 Years
• Quotable Quotes from The German Ideology by Marx & Engels
• "On Unreflective Reflexivity" by R. Dumain
• Commodification of Progressive Ideology by Ralph Dumain
• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by R. Dumain
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide
• Doubt & Skepticism: A Directed Minimal Bibliography & Web Guide
• Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide
• “Ideology as a Form and Mode of Human Existence” by Milan Kangrga
• "Theory and Ideology" by Alvin Gouldner
• Henri Lefebvre on Marx, Religion, Philosophy, Ideology & Politics
• The Vacillation of Ideology (Excerpt) by Étienne Balibar
• Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work by Maurice Cornforth
• Maurice Cornforth on Partisanship and Objectivity by Ralph Dumain
• "Objectivity & Partisanship in Science" by Aant Elzinga
• "The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratic Images" by Aant Elzinga
• The Man of Science in a World of Crisis: A Plea for a Two-Pronged Attack on Positivism and Irrationalism by Aant Elzinga
• "The Concept of Critique in Social Science" by Mihailo Markovic
• On Althusser, Ideology and Marxist Theory of Knowledge by David W. Schwartzman & Mohsin Siddique, Response by Lester Talkington
• "Cynicism as a Form of Ideology" by Slavoj Zizek
• "Myth Today" (excerpt) by Roland Barthes
• Moralism & Morality (Excerpt) by Anthony Skillen
• "Historical Amnesia" by Karl Maton & Rob Moore
• "Popes, Kings & Cultural Studies: Placing the commitment to non-disciplinarity in historical context" by Karl Maton
• Adorno on the Commodification of Theory
• Ideology? (photographs)
• Paul Szende on ideology & reification
• Alienation, Utopia, & Hungarian intellectuals: Madách, Ady, Karinthy, Fogarasi, Nádor, Lukács, Mannheim by Joseph Gabel
• “Mitologías del odio” de Jorge Luis Borges
• "Pri Falsa Konscio kaj Mistifiko" de Ladislav Podmele (in Esperanto)
• Essence of dialectical method vs ideology: key links

Offsite:

• "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Quarterly Journal of Ideology
• Ideology and False Consciousness by Joseph McCarney
• The Real World of Ideology by Joseph McCarney
• "Notes towards a Theory of Ideology" by Ernst Gellner (1978)
• The Theory of Ideology: Bringing the Mind Back In by Trevor Pateman