Truth and Ideology 1st Edition by Hans Barth,Frederic Lilge,Reinhard Bendix ISBN 0520336461 978-0520336469

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Table of contents: 

I. The Ideology of Destruction and Its Conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte

II. Bacon’s Theory of Idols and Its Political, Anticlerical Interpretation by Helvetius and Holbach

1. Bacon’s Theory of Idols – Page 17
2. The Unmasking of Prejudices by Helvetius and Holbach – Page 28

III. Ideology and Ideological Consciousness in the Philosophy of Karl Marx

1. Hegel and the Practical, Revolutionary Marxian Thought – Page 38
2. Philosophy as the Criticism and Ideational Supplement of Reality – Page 47
3. Hegel and the Dissolution of the Christian Religion – Page 52
4. Feuerbach’s Reduction of Theology to Anthropology – Page 55
5. Marx’s Passage from the Critique of Religion to Politics – Page 58
6. History Viewed in Terms of the “Loss” and “Recovery” of Man – Page 62
7. The Idea of Self-Alienation in Rousseau – Page 64
8. Work and the Division of Labor – Page 80
9. The Division of Labor and the Origin of Ideological Consciousness – Page 87
10. Man—the Social Natural Being, Free, Conscious, and Self-Alienating – Page 93
11. The Philosophy of Art – Page 96
12. Ideology and Ideological Consciousness – Page 100
13. History Viewed as the Self-Negation of the “Alien Power” – Page 111
14. Some Reflections on Social Philosophy – Page 121

IV. Schopenhauer’s “True Critique of Reason”

V. Nietzsche’s Philosophy as the “Art of Mistrust”

1. Nietzsche’s Influence and Some Interpretations of His Work – Page 136
2. The Biological and Sociological Critique of Reason – Page 143
3. Ideological Theory and the Method of Reduction – Page 159
4. The Analysis of Decadence and the Contradiction in the Anthropological Foundation – Page 168
5. The Limitations of Nietzsche’s Theory of Ideology, and His Political Philosophy – Page 175

VI. A View of the Present

Index