Russell Jacoby - Ideology Quotes

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Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.

Russell Jacoby

The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.

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The inner connection between a positivism of numbers and quantities and one of human values and qualities is the excision of a critical distance and theory. Both surrender to different faces of reality—its facts or its ideology—and both stay clear and clean of antagonisms and contradictions.

Russell Jacoby

No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the values, insecurities, goals of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer.

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