Ideology Defns Eagleton

a) the process of production of meanings, signs and value in social life;

b) a body of ideas characteristic of a particular social group or class;
c) ideas which help to legitimate a dominant political power;
d) false ideas which help to legitimate a dominant political power;(Marx)
e) systematically distorted communication;(Habermas-Frankfurt School?))
f) that which offers a position for a subject;
g) forms of thought motivated by social interests;
h) identity thinking;
i) socially necessary illusion;
j) the conjuncture of discourse and power; (Foucault?)
k) the medium in which conscious social actors make sense of their world;
l) action-oriented sets of beliefs;
m) the confusion of linguistic and phenomenal reality;(Phenomenology)
n) semiotic closure; (Deconstruction?)
o) the indispensable medium in which individuals live out their relation to a social structure;
p) the process whereby said life is converted to a natural reality.
q) ideology as Cynicsim - Zizek

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SOURCE: Eagleton, Terry. Ideology: An Introduction (London: Verso, 1991), pp. 1-2.


A good way to compare paradigms?


C.f typing and the body hand metaphor re bWo(Deleuze)


re Eagleton, I like what I have read of Eagleton's style and clarity, he's good a demystification but his   Marxist style sometimes excludes the middle , his approach to 'closure'  is interesting (e.g. What is Ideology -)