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Ideology Critique after the ‘Death of Man’ Explaining the Persistence of a Discredited Practice Jason Neidleman University of La Verne Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 28 - August 31 2003. Copyright by the American Political Science Association. In the wake of psychoanalytic and post-structuralist attacks on the modern categories of political analysis (subjectivity agency universality) ideology critique has come to be regarded as deeply problematic if not utterly indefensible.
just as Kant says that we can never know how much empirical forces influence the decision to follow the moral law. What is critical is that just as this uncertainty does not invalidate Kant’s moral philosophy likewise our sense that socio-historical context always (though never totally or uniformly) determines ideas does not invalidate ideology critique. It means only that one not be imperious about the uses to which it is put; it must not be the handmaiden of some