Knowledge and Ideology - The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique

For political philosophers, Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Dialectic of Ideology: 1. In and of this world: the dual status of thought; 2. The immanent destruction of functional ideology critique: Nietzsche, Foucault, Althusser; Part II. On Ideology and Violence: 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau: social oppression, the gaze of the other, and the appeal of naturalized violence; 4. Max Stirner: the Bohemian Left and the violent self-loathing of the bourgeoisie; 5. Marx contra Stirner: a parting of ways; Part III. A Marxist Theory of Knowledge: 6. German visions of the French Revolution: on the interpretation of dreams; 7. The persistent crises and the social vocation of reason: Mannheim as epistemologist; 8. Practice, reflection, sublimation, critique: social ontology and social knowledge; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Michael Morris is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has published articles in journals including the International Yearbook of German Idealism, the European Journal of Philosophy and the Intellectual History Review.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Morris, Morris Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781316630327
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63032-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge