Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:51:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Heraclite-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: Re: M-INTRO: ideology


On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 oldmole-AT-pseud.pseud wrote:

> I think one thing we should bear in mind is that "ideology" as Marx uses the
> term deals with largely with unformulated assumptions. As Louis Althusser
> put it in _For Marx_:
> 
> "Thus, for Marx, an ideology is 'unconscious of its "theoretical
> presuppositions", that is, the active but unavowed problematic which fixes
> for it the meaning and movement of *its problems* and thereby of their
> solutions."

Thanks for the note oldmole,

As a matter of fact, I am working on Althusser right now, specifically his
essay on Ideolgocial State Apparatuses, which  I find very relevant to my
interests.  It places the educational system squarely within the process
of social prodcution and reproduction.

May be back with more questions in the coming week.

h 




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