Reading List

This is a list of books and papers that engage with ideology through many different lenses. Items marked with a ★ are considered particularly helpful by the organisers. General ★ Althusser, Louis. “On the Reproduction of Capitalism”. See: ideological state apparatuses. Contra: ideology is not only relationships of production. ★ Billig et al. “Ideological Dilemmas; A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking”. See: lived ideology vs intellectual ideology. ★ Chandler, Daniel. “Semiotics for Beginners”. ★ Haslanger, Sally. “But Mom, Crop-Tops Are Cute!”. ★ MacIntyre, Alasdair. “Social Structures and Their Threats to Moral Agency”. ★ Marcuse, Herbert. “One-Dimensional Man”. ★ Mills, Charles W. “Ideal Theory as Ideology”. Aytac et al. “Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach”. Balkin, Jack. “Cultural Software; A Theory of Ideology”. Barrett, Jacob. “Ideology Critique and Game Theory”. Berger, Peter L; Luckmann, Thomas. “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge”. Bourdieu, Pierre. “Language and Symbolic Power”. Bremner et al. “Ideology as Relativized A Priori: On the Mind’s Relation to the Social World”. Cavell, Stanley. “Must we mean what we say?”. See “whirl of organism”. Chun, Christian W. “The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense”. Crehan, Kate. “Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology”. De La Boétie, Étienne. “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”. Dotson, Kristie. “Distinguishing Knowledge Possession and Knowledge Attribution: The Difference Metaphilosophy Makes”. Eagleton, Terry. “Ideology: An Introduction”. Eagleton, Terry. “Ideology”. Filippini, Michele. “Using Gramsci”. Finlayson, Lorna. “On Mountains and Molehills: Problems, Non-problems, and the Ideology of Ideology”. Freeden et al. “The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies”. Freeden, Michael. “Ideology: A Very Short Introduction”. Fromm, Erich. “Marx’s Contribution to the Knowledge of Man”. Geuss, Raymond. “The Idea of a Critical Theory”. Gilabert, Pablo. “Real interests, well-being, and ideology critique”. Gramsci, Antonio. “Selections from the Prison Notebooks”. But find a way to filter through this. Related: manufactured consent. Habermas, Jürgen. “The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: a Critique of Functionalist Reason”. Hacking, Ian. “The Social Construction of What?”. Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History”. Haslanger, Sally. “Cognition as a Social Skill”. Haslanger, Sally. “Failures of Methodological Individualism; The Materiality of Social Systems”. Haslanger, Sally. “How to Change a Social Structure”. Haslanger, Sally. “Ideology in Practice; What Does Ideology Do? (The Aquinas Lecture)”. Haslanger, Sally. “Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique”. Haslanger, Sally. “What is a Social Practice?”. Hawkes, David. “Ideology”. Heath, Joseph. “Ideology, Irrationality and Collectively Self-defeating Behavior”. Hennessy, Rosemary. “Women’s Lives / Feminist Knowledge: Feminist Standpoint as Ideology Critique”. Hirji, Sukaina. “Oppressive Double Binds”. Honneth, Axel. “Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea”. Ives, Peter. “Language and Hegemony in Gramsci”. Jay, Martin. “Marxism and Totality”. Kennedy, Emmet. “‘Ideology’ from Destutt de Tracy to Marx”. Kripke, Saul. “Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language”. Luckmann et al. “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge”. Mannheim, Karl. “Ideology as Utopia”. Martin, James. “Antonio Gramsci”. In the SEP. McDowell, John. “Non-cognitivism and rule following”. In “Wittgenstein; To Follow a Rule” (ed Holtzmann et al). McDowell, John. “Wittgenstein on Following a Rule”. Nash, Roy. “Bourdieu on Education and Social and Cultural Reproduction”. Ostrowski, Marius S. “Ideology”. Roberts, William Clare. “Ideology”. In the SEP. Roucek, Joseph S. “A History of the Concept of Ideology”. Sankaran, Kirun. “What’s new in the new ideology critique”. Scott, James. “Seeing Like a State”. Shashidhar, R. “Culture and Society: An Introduction to Raymond Williams” Shelby, Tommie. “Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory”. Stahl, Titus. “False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power”. Stalnaker, Robert. “Context and Content”. Stanley et al. “The Politics of Language”. Stebbing, Susan. “Thinking to Some Purpose”. Therborn, Göran. “The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology”. Thompson, EP. “Socialist Humanism: An Epistle to the Philistines”. Verschueren, Jef. “Ideology in Language Use”. Warren, Jared. “Killing Kripkenstein’s Monster”. Williams, Raymond. “Culture and Society”. Williams, Raymond. “Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society”. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “Philosophical Investigations”. See: forms of life; meaning as use. Worsnip, Alex. “Applied Epistemology; What is it? Why do it?”. Žižek, Slavoj. “Mapping Ideology”. Žižek, Slavoj. “The Sublime Object of Ideology”. Common Ground and Generics ★ Haslanger, Sally. “The Normal, The Natural and the Good; Generics and Ideology”. ★ Lewis, David. “Scorekeeping in a Language Game”. ★ Restall, Greg. “Assertions, Denials, Questions, Answers and the Common Ground”. See: bid for retraction, p 2. ★ Restall, Greg. “Generics: Inference and Accommodation”. See: inferences also being recorded in the common ground (p 16–17). ★ Restall, Greg. “Multiple Conclusions”. Logical foundation for Restall’s “Questions…”. See p 7–10. ★ Restall, Greg. “Questions, Justification Requests, Inference, and Definition”. See p 1–17. Adams, N P. “Authority, Illocutionary Accommodation, and Social Accommodation”. Beaver et al. “Presupposition”. In the SEP. Beaver et al. “Questions Under Discussion: Where Information Structure Meets Projective Content”. See shared list of questions currently under discussion. Langton, Rae. “Accommodating Injustice”. Leslie, Sarah-Jane. “Generics: Cognition and Acquisition”. Murray, Sarah E; Starr, William B. “Force and Conversational States”. See private commitments not being inconsistent with common ground; I can allow something into the common ground though I privately disagree. Portner, Paul. “The Semantics of Imperatives within a Theory of Clause Types”. See keeping track of imperatives. Roberts, Craige. “Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics”. See shared list of questions currently under discussion. Roberts, Craige. “Speech Acts in Discourse Context”. See shared list of questions currently under discussion. Stalnaker, Robert. “Common Ground”. Stovall, Preston. “Characterizing generics are material inference tickets: a proof-theoretic analysis”. Social Norms ★ Bicchieri, Christina. “The Grammar of Society”. ★ Dougherty, Tracey Quinlan. “Changing Norms to Change Lives” (re Cristina Bicchieri). ★ Lewis, David. “On Convention”. Banerjee, Abhijit V. “A Simple Model of Herd Behavior”. Bettenhausen et al. “The Emergence of Norms in Competitive Decision-Making Groups”. Bikhchandani et al. “A Theory of Fads, Fashions, Customs, and Cultural Change as Information Cascades”. Hirschman, Albert O. “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty; Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States”. Shepsle, Kenneth A. “Rational Choice Institutionalism”. In “The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions”, ed Rhodes et al. Sugden et al. “Common Knowledge, Salience and Convention; A Reconstruction of David Lewis’ Game Theory”. Systems in Sociology Meadows, Donella H. “Thinking in Systems”. Schelling, Thomas C. “Micromotives and Macrobehavior”. Psychology Marshall, Sandra P. “Schemas in Problem Solving”. Stokoe et al. “Discourse and Identity”. Additional Sources Chitty, Andrew. “A Marx Bibliography”. Dumoulin, Jenn. “Ideology: Where Does it Come from and How is it Used”. Roberts, William Clare. “McGill POLI 613 Theories of Ideology Syllabus”. Helpful Quotes Althusser on the necessity to change culture in addition to politics (“On the Reproduction of Capitalism”, p 89–91):