Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins
Series: Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 & 3 (15th Anniversary Issue)
Publisher: Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
Published: 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
Copyright date: 1991
Description: *Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins* is written in the shadow of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here, the meaning of power and ideology is finally thought with and against the shattered horizon of socialist and capitalist realism. Thinking anew the theory and practice of democratic politics, the essays put into question the meaning of ideology (as false consciousness) and the meaning of power (as seduction). On the question of ideology, political theorists, including Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Claude Lefort, and Zygmunt Bauman, challenge the privileging of ideology-critique in orthodox Marxism. This critical reinterpretation of ideology is then accelerated by a radical (Baudrillardian) rereading of the meaning of power as seduction. The book concludes with political analyses of demon politics in the post-Cold War era.

*Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins* is a special triple issue celebrating the 15th year of publication of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. This text is also Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 &3 (1991).
Table of contents: title: Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins (Arthur and Marilouise Kroker)
pagenum: ix; title: What is to be Done? Art and Politics after the FALL… (Mark Lewis)
pagenum: 1; label: I.
title: Disappearing Ideology; title: Four Theses on Ideology (Anthony Giddens)
pagenum: 21; title: The Impossibility of Society (Ernesto Laclau)
pagenum: 24; title: La Langue Introuvable (Michel Pêcheux and Françoise Gadet)
pagenum: 27; title: Some Conditions for Revolutionizing Late Capitalist Society (Jürgen Habermas)
pagenum: 35; title: On the Genesis of Ideology in Modern Societies (Claude Lefort)
pagenum: 46; title: Concepts of Ideology in Marx (György Márkus)
pagenum: 87; title: Ideology and the Weltanschauung of the Intellectuals (Zygmunt Bauman)
pagenum: 107; label: II.
title: Power and Seduction; title: Cynical Power: The Fetishism of the Sign (Arthur Kroker and Charles Levin)
pagenum: 123; title: When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy (Jean Baudrillard)
pagenum: 135; title: Baudrillard's Seduction (Brian Singer)
pagenum: 139; title: Sign and Commodity: Aspects of the Cultural Dynamic of Advanced Capitalism (Andrew Wernick)
pagenum: 152; title: Baudrillard, Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis (Charles Levin)
pagenum: 170; label: III.
title: Demon Politics
pagenum: 191; title: Hobbes and/or North: Rhetoric of American National Security (Frederick M. Dolan)
pagenum: 191; title: The Dark Night of the Liberal Spirit and the Dawn of the Savage (Michael A. Weinstein)
pagenum: 210; title: Ressentiment and Postmodern Politics (Michael Dorland)
pagenum: 225; title: Promotional Culture (Andrew Wernick)
pagenum: 260; title: …and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledge
pagenum: 285; title: We Objects Object (Eileen Manion)
pagenum: 285; title: The End(s) of Woman (N. Ricci)
pagenum: 301