Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ideology
- Marx and Engels
- "Neither produced a body of
literary-critical work" p647
- German Ideology
- "Life is not determined
by consciousness, but
consciousness by life"
p656
- For Marxist literary critics, an understanding of ideology
"illuminates...the nature of capitalist exploitation" p649 -
Link to Althusser and ISAs
- Alternatively, Marxist literary criticism
allows the critic to see the underlying
goals of a writer - goals related to a working class
revolution.
- Marxist critics must approach literature "as
integral parts of economic and social life"
- Economic and
Philosophic
Manuscripts of 1844
- Ideology is used to alienate
the worker from the work that
they do and the products of it
- i.e. ideology ensures that the
worker reap no benefits
- Communist Manifesto
- Grundisse
- Preface to A
Contribution to the
Critique of Political
Economy
- Capital Volume 1
- Letter from
Engels to Bloch
- Louis Althusser
- IDEOLOGY: How class
interests operate through
cultural forms. Ideology
conceals the reality of class
struggle from our
"consciousness".
- Thus, a "false
consciousness" is created.