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Mapping Ideology

This volume is one of the first titles in the series "Mappings", designed to offer readers surveys of new zones of cultural, social and political experience. This text surveys the development of the concept of ideology from Marx to the present.

Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 348 pages
Form
essays

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