Understanding Ideology

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 201 pages
Herein, the reader is enabled to recognize public expressions of an ideology, thereby avoiding gullibility and the consequences of ignorance. Of Karl Mannheim's classic dual conception of ideology, a Marxist Freudian orientation is adopted. Supporting this is a critical conception of social alienation with aggressivity, narcissism, and socialization providing the psychological foundation for establishing any ideology. Operative in ideology are the same psychically defensive mechanisms Freud found in wishful dreams, neurotic repression, paranoia, and mythology. Various forms of fallacious reasoning and propaganda sustain ideology. Finally dealt with is the possibility of escaping ideology as well as its difference from science. From years past. Mr. Morris holds the equivalent of a 1963 undergraduate degree in philosophy, a 1970 MA degree in philosophy and successfully completed in 1980 a Ph.D. requirement in philosophical anthropology. Currently retired from a federal government career and academically unaffiliated. Mr. Morris has Published two previous books. Escaping Alienation: A Philosophy of Alienation and Dealienation (2002) and Emotion and Anxiety: A Philosophic Inquiry (2006). Book jacket.
 

Contents

Mannheim
1
Alienation and Ideology
19
Marxs Concept of Ideology
37
Aggressivity
65
Freud on Ideology
79
Ideology Psychoanalytically Interpreted
99
Proselytizing Ideology
135
Philosophical Issues of Ideology
155
Glossary
179
Selected Bibliography
195
Index
199
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Warren Frederick Morris holds the equivalent of a 1963 undergraduate degree in philosophy, a 1970 MA degree in philosophy and successfully completed in 1980 a Ph.D. requirement in philosophical anthropology. Currently retired from a federal government career and continuing to write books, Mr. Morris has published two previous books, Escaping Alienation: A Philosophy of Alienation and Dealienation (2002) and Emotion and Anxiety: A Philosophic Inquiry (2006).