Lectures on Ideology and Utopia - Hardcover

Ricoeur, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231060483 ISBN 13: 9780231060486

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Essays cover Marx, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, Louis Althusser, Jurgen Habermas, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Ricouer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X, is the author, most recently of, Critique and Conviction (Columbia).

From Library Journal:

Though Ricoeur's book brings to mind Karl Mannheim's classic Ideology and Utopia , his purpose is not to advance a thesis about the nature of ideological or utopian thinking but to intrepret texts. In section 1, he offers a painstaking discussion of Marx's concept of ideology, especially as found in his earlier work, and illuminating commentary on the difficult works of Althusser. In section 2, he briefly considers the utopian thought of Saint-Simon and Fourier. Ricoeur displays his customary skill both in telling us what an author means and in comparing and contrasting texts. He rarely seems interested, though, in asking whether an argument is valid. The book is based on lectures given at the University of Chicago in 1975 and edited by a former student. David Gordon, Social Philosophy & Policy Ctr., Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0231060483
• ISBN 13: 9780231060486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353