LIT 165B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Héctor Tobar, Antithesis, Neo-Marxism
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Response paper is due friday instead of wednesday (email it) Synthesis: thesis & antithesis new idea from it combined. What is ideology? powerful institution through language and symbolic practice; Common usage - the set of belief the other side holds. It is a false consciousness - a fantastic worldview forced upon individuals by a. According to althusser + neo-marxist theory - we can only apprehend reality there is no outside ideology it represents our imaginary relationship to our real conditions of existence. We are so deeply, socialized into what seems most natural and common sense is the most ideological.
