Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins

Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker0920393497, 9780920393499

Divided into sections on ideology, power, and politics, this collection of essays attempts to understand, from a neo-Marxist and postmodern perspective, the effect that the collapse of Soviet power will have on these elements of our world. Although the title implies that the collection considers the post-1989 world, many of the articles were written before that date. To all intents and purposes, this is an exact reproduction of the current issue (Vol. 15, No. 1/3) of the Krokers’ Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory . Its publication in the monographic series “CultureTexts” is an opportunity for those libraries which do not subscribe to the journal but which do collect in the areas of postmodernism, cultural theory, and Canadian and post-Cold War political theory to acquire some useful articles from theorists like Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas, and Anthony Giddens.

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Table of contents :
IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN THE AGE OF LENIN IN RUINS……Page 8
WHAT IS TO BE DONE: Art and Politics after the FALL……Page 15
DISAPPEARING IDEOLOGY……Page 33
FOUR THESES ON IDEOLOGY……Page 34
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SOCIETY……Page 37
LA LANGUE INTROUVABLE……Page 40
SOME CONDITIONS FOR REVOLUTIONIZING LATE CAPITALIST SOCIETIES [1968]……Page 48
ON THE GENESIS OF IDEOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIETIES……Page 59
CONCEPTS OF IDEOLOGY IN MARX……Page 100
IDEOLOGY AND THE WTLTANSCHAUUNG OF THE INTELLECTUALS……Page 120
POWER AND SEDUCTION……Page 134
CYNICAL POWER: THE FETISHISM OF THE SIGN……Page 135
WHEN BATAILLE ATTACKED THE METAPHYSICAL PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY’……Page 147
BAUDRILLARD’S SEDUCTION……Page 151
SIGN AND COMMODITY: ASPECTS OF THE CULTURAL DYNAMIC OF ADVANCED CAPITALISM……Page 164
BAUDRILLARD, CRITICAL THEORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS……Page 182
DEMON POLITICS……Page 201
HOBBES AND/OR NORTH: THE RHETORIC OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY……Page 202
THE DARK NIGHT OF THE LIBERAL SPIRIT AND THE DAWN OF THE SAVAGE……Page 221
A THOROUGHLY HIDDEN COUNTRY: RESSEISMMENT, CANADIAN NATIONALISM, CANADIAN CULTURE……Page 236
PROMOTIONAL CULTURE……Page 271
. . . AND THE INSURRECTION OF SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGE……Page 294
WE OBJECTS OBJECT: PORNOGRAPHYAND THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT……Page 295
THE END/S OF WOMAN……Page 311