This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs.
A guide to the myriad definitions and meanings of "ideology", this title traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day; asks why ideology matters; and examines ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism.
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