This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography a new glossary andindex and fresh suggestions for further reading as well as a discussion ofideology a... » 

This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography a new glossary andindex and fresh suggestions for further reading as well as a discussion ofideology after September 11. Ideology traces the history of the term and thedebates which surround it from Machiavelli to the present day asks whyideology matters examines ideology within the critical frameworks ofempiricism idealism Marxism postMarxism and postmodernism. With plenty ofclear examples to illuminate the discussion Ideology offers an accessibleintroduction to this controversial and widely debated critical concept. «