RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Metanarrative, False Consciousness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS121
• Professor: David Seljak

Document Summary

Can sell, buy, or develop it: individuals have rights and freedoms; no signi cant body between individual and the state. De nition of ideology: a doctrine which purports to provide a comprehensive explanation of political, social and economic arrangements and promotes a particular project based on that explanation. Ideology can either justify the status quo or replace it. An ideology is marked by i) coherency: relationship to political power, logevity and institutionalization, roots in the prepolitical, culture is often shaped by ideology, and culture can shape. Functions of an ideology: explanation: it provides narrative, communication: explanation is addressed to a power based, organization: tied to a project to reshape society (projet de soci t , inspiration: seeks to a ect a psychological change in people. Bauman on evil and ideology: garden culture, the world as a project, de nition and pursuit of the good, evil as a creative activity, evil without hatred.