Studies in Ideology Essays on Culture and

In Studies in Ideology, poet and theorist J.M. Beach delivers a comprehensive analysis of the history and theory of ideology. Beach offers his theory of ideology in conjunction with an extensive reading of history and contemporary affairs and ends the book with a brief biographical sketch of his own intellectual maturation, which is imbedded within a daring and timely critique of Christianity.

J. M. Beach is currently the Administrator at Waldorf School of Orange County and an Adjunct Professor at Riverside Community College, Norco campus.

Preface: The Human Condition

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Introduction: Ideas, Do They Matter? Ideology, Does it Exist? So What?

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Part I. One Does Not Live by Bread Alone

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Introduction

Ideology as Process

1. Where is Ideology?

The Geopolitical Landscape

2. What is Ideology?

Historical Definitions

3. How Does Ideology Work: Historical Examples

Part II. Ideology, Reality, and Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Dramatism

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Introduction

1. Charting Ideology, Communicating Terms, and Changing Courses

2. Seeing and Not Seeing

The Blindness of Ideology

3. Perspective by Incongruity

4. Emergent Collectivism

Acceptance, Rejection and a Widening of Scope

5. Charting the Drama

A Grammar of Motives

6. The Rhetoric of Constitutions

7. Burke's Rhetoric of Rhetoric

Conclusion: A Burkean Ethics

Part III. Literature and Ideology

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Introduction: The Fundamentalist Threat and the Power of Ideology

1. The Lesson of Don Quixote

2. Dangerous of Ideology

Fanaticism, Intolerance and Violence in The Turner Diaries

3. The Modern Urge of Nihilism in Three Acts

4. Awakenings

Systemic Abstractions Falling Before Reality in Resurrection and "A Doll's House"

5. The Predicament of the Progressive in "Life of Galileo" and "Enemy of the People"

6. A Radical Perspective: Camus' Humanistic Philosophy

Conclusion: Finding an Ideology that Fits the Facts

Part IV. A Critique of Christianity

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Introduction: Why I Became an Atheist

1. What We Know of the Historical Jesus

2. The Evolution of Christianity

3. Apocalyptic Eschatology

4. The Idea of God

Appendix A: Selected Popular Culture Resources for Pedagogical Approaches to Ideology

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Appendix B: Selected Popular Culture Themes for Classroom Study

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Select Bibliography

Selected Index

Author Biography

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