Author: Joseph Alagha
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: ideology, political, press, isim, university, dissertations, program, hizbullah, religious, shifts, amsterdam
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9053569103
ISBN-13: 9789053569108

As the recent war in Lebanon demonstrated, an understanding of the Lebanese Shi‘ite militant group Hizbullah remains an important component of any attempt to solve the problems of the Middle East. The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology provides an in-depth analysis of the group’s motivations, tracking the changes it has undergone since Hizbullah’s founding by Lebanese Shi‘ite clergy in 1978. Joseph Alagha demonstrates that Hizbullah, driven at its founding chiefly by religious concerns, in the latter half of the 1980s became a full-fledged social movement, with a structure and ideology a

Author: Augusto Ponzio
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: ideology, discourse, critical, language, theory, approaches, dialogue, interdisciplinary, signs
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1993-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027224218
ISBN-13: 9789027224217

This text illustrates and critically examines, both historically and theoretically, the current state of semiotic discourse from Pierce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. The author seeks a method to construct an appropriate language to talk about signs and ideology in this "end of ideology" era. He aims at an orientation in semiotics based on dialogism and interpretation, by calling attention to the widespread transition from the semiotics of decodification to the semiotics of interpretation. Such a method should lead to n

Author: Goran Therborn
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: ideology, power, classic, verso
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-07-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1859842127
ISBN-13: 9781859842126

Few concepts have been so intensely discussed or so widely sponsored as that of ’ideology’. Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy, whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted as the necessary element of social practice, ’ideology’ has become an ineluctable conceptual reference across a range of works dealing with subjects as varied as science and politics, gender and cultural production. In this book, Goran Therborn makes a decisive contribution to the contemporary debate. Beginning with some cri

Authors:Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Christopher John Arthur
Publisher: International Publishers
Keywords: amp, german, selections, ideology, pts, parts, part
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1970-12
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0717803023
ISBN-13: 9780717803026

This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx’s and Engels’s major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students.

Author: David Buxton
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: series, television, form, ideology, politics, cultural, miami, vice, avengers
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1990-07
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0719029945
ISBN-13: 9780719029943

This book offers an analysis of a range of different British and American television series from the 1950s to the present day. Three broad categories are used to organize the analysis: "human nature" ("Bonanza", "The Untouchables", "The Invaders", "Star Trek"); "pop" ("The Prisoner", "The Avengers", "The Man from UNCLE", "Mission: Impossible") and the police series ("Hawaii 5.O", "Starsky and Hutch", "Kojak", "Miami Vice"). The emphasis is on the discussion of underlying ideological strategy and the text seeks to establish television criticism as a form of interpretative explanation whilst com

Author: Eric Carlton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: ideology, war
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1990-12-10
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0389209457
ISBN-13: 9780389209454

Why do men resort to war to solve their socio-economic problems? That is the question that Eric Carlton asks, and attempts to answer, in this stimulating, readable study. Relating war to ideology, it is based on the proposition that men act as they think, and think as they believe, and that belief-religious or otherwise-conditions attitudes toward the nature and conduct of war. Carlton argues that various constellations of values-often intellectualized as ideologies-not only constitute the rationalizations and justifications for war, but may also provide the actual imperatives for warfare itse

Author: Dr John J Schwarzmantel
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: politics, ideology
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1412919738
ISBN-13: 9781412919739

This book challenges the idea of post-ideological consensus and offers a fresh perspective on the current state of political ideologies. Ideology and Politics presents an accessible account of a new era of ideological politics, where the dominant neo-liberalism has spawned a diverse global range of ‘ideologies of opposition’. It situates these radical frameworks of change and protest in relation to more traditional ‘anti’ ideologies and seeks to re-establish the relevance of ideologies for political action in the contemporary world.