Karl Marx`s Theory of Ideas Studies in Marxism and Social Theory

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Marxism Versus Marx: What Marx`s Theory of Ideology was not ..................1 Engels and the Marxism of the Second International .............3 Lenin: Functionalism and Revolutionary Authoritarianism .......11 Western Marxism .............17 2. Marx`s Theory of Knowledge.......29 Two Epistemological Traditions .......29 Philosophy and Science ............39 Marx`s Epistemology ...........42 Three pairs of Concepts .......44 3. The Basis of False Consciousness: Theory .............61 The Conceptual Structure of Marx`s Theory of Ideas ..............61 Three meta-Theoretical Assumptions ............70 4. The Basis of False Consciousness: Social Being ........95 Surface and Interior .........96 Reification .........100 Misleading appearances in Pre-Capitalist Societies ........126 5. Social Consciousness...........144 Consciousness and Superstructure .........145 Fetishism ................165 The Myth of Bourgeois Classlessness.......171 6. Ideology ......191 Defining Ideology ........191 Characteristics of Ideology ..........201 Ideology, evaluation and Interests: the Case of Malthus .....216 7. Class Struggle, Consciousness and Ideology ...............224 Class Consciousness as False Consciousness ...............224 Ideology and the Ruling Class .............243 Ideology and Revolutionary Classes ........250 8. Interpretations of Marx on Justice ...............281 A Theory of Justice for Marx ..........298 9. Morality ........307 Two interpretations of Marx on Morality .........307 Morality as Ideology ................314 Class moralities .........330 A moral Theory for Marx ..........338 10. The Sociology of Political Economy .............362 Intellectual and social Conditions of Scientific Progress .........362 The Emergence of Political Economy ...........372 Classical Political Economy and its Aftermath .............380 Historical Political Economy .............394 11. Marx`s Science and Marxist Ideology ................398 Marx`s Critique of Political Economy ..........398 Marxism as Ideology ..........422 Social Science after Marx ...............424