The New Critique of Ideology Lessons from Post-Pinochet Chile [Hardcover]

This book offers a new ideology critique for political analysis by revisiting Habermas via a }i~ekian reading. The book includes an application of the theory to the case of the political consensus reached in Chile's post-Pinochet.PART I: TOWARDS A NEW MODEL OF IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE 1. The Classic Debate on the Theory of Ideology 2. The Contemporary Debate on the Theory of Ideology 3. A Universal Notion of Truth: Habermas avec }i~ek 4. The Methodological Framework of the Case Study PART II: CHILE'S POST-PINOCHET: A CASE STUDY 5. The Transformation of Power in Pinochet's Era 6. The Discourse of Class Struggle 7. The Ideological Discourse in Post-Pinochet Chile ConclusionRicardo Camargo is Associate Professor of Social Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, Chile.