The Charmed Circle of Ideology
Author: Geoff Boucher
Publisher: re.press
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0980666597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet against the collapse of social theory into a theory of ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a detailed and immanent critique, Boucher concentrates his critical attention on the 'postmarxism' of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek. In response Boucher points to 'intersubjectivity' as an exit from postmarxist theory's charmed circle of ideology.