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| | Encyclopedia: Ideology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Political philosophy is the study of the fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, property, law and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should... |
 | | In my practice, ideology critique means subjecting texts actively asserts the critic's radical, contestatory position (1) against traditional "sedimented" interpretations of the text in order to resist the pull of critical orthodoxy and institutional hegemony, and (2) against the dominant ideology of the social formation in which the text was produced. |
 | | Ideology critique encompasses the Althusserian concept of "symptomatic reading" as a practice which strives to reveal and examine the discursive conditions which enable texts to be (re)produced at particular historical moments (Althusser 1982, 253-4). |
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