False Consciousness - An Essay on Mystification

Informationen zum Autor Guenter Lewy Zusammenfassung In this book, Guenter Lewy explains and critiques the idea of false consciousness - that people living under capitalism do not know their best interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I. The Theory of False Consciousness 1. False Consciousness: From Marx to Marcuse PART II. The Practice of Eradicating False Consciousness 2. The Political Use of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union 3. Thought Reform in the People’s Republic of China 4. Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Federal Republic of Germany PART III. Are Democracy and Capitalism Sustained By False Consciousness? 5. The Case for the Cultural Hegemony of the Dominant Classes 6. The American System of Education 7. The Mass Media in America PART IV. Conclusions 8. False Consciousness Evaluated

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• Authors: Guenter Lewy
• Assisted by: Guenter Lewy (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781412864114
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6411-4
• No. of pages: 134
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms