Knowledge and Ideology

Zusammenfassung Drawing upon a range of German and French thinkers, including Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mannheim, Lukacs, Habermas, Althusser, and Foucault, Michael Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge. His study will interest readers in political philosophy and political theory.

Autorentext

The author was a Combat Engineer (1983-1987) and Psychiatric Technician (1992-2019). He graduated from SSU in 1992. He has spent his life straddling the fence between the righteous and the wicked, between poetry and pragmatism, thinking and doing, getting laid and getting serious, going out for a walk, and coming back.

Klappentext

For political philosophers, Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Dialectic of Ideology: 1. In and of this world: the dual status of thought; 2. The immanent destruction of functional ideology critique: Nietzsche, Foucault, Althusser; Part II. On Ideology and Violence: 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau: social oppression, the gaze of the other, and the appeal of naturalized violence; 4. Max Stirner: the Bohemian Left and the violent self-loathing of the bourgeoisie; 5. Marx contra Stirner: a parting of ways; Part III. A Marxist Theory of Knowledge: 6. German visions of the French Revolution: on the interpretation of dreams; 7. The persistent crises and the social vocation of reason: Mannheim as epistemologist; 8. Practice, reflection, sublimation, critique: social ontology and social knowledge; Bibliography; Index.