The aesthetics of ideology, or 'the critique of ideological judgment' in Eagleton and Žižek

Political Theory

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-120

  Sharpe, Matthew ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Ideology; Sensus communis; The beautiful; The sublime

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644442641     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591705279074     Document Type: Review

References (100)

1. Slavoj Žižek, "Introduction: The Spectre of Ideology," in Mapping Ideology, ed. Slavoj Žižek (London: Verso, 1994), 3-7.
2. Terry Eageton, Ideology: An Introduction (London: Verso, 1991), 1 ff.
3. Karl Marx, "The German Ideology," in The Portable Karl Marx (London: Viking, 1983), 162, 169-71, 174-76;
4. and Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction, 75 ff.
5. See Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989), 213 ff.
6. Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," in Lenin and Philosophy (New York: NYU Press, 1971), 161 ff.
7. Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy Ibid., 174.
8. Žižek, "Introduction," 7.
9. Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (London: Blackwell, 2001), 1-5. See below.
10. Žižek, Sublime Object, 201-2, 110-29, 190-99.
11. See Matthew Sharpe, "The Sociopolitical Limits of Fantasy: September 11 and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Ideology" (Cultural Logic, 2002), http://eserver.org/clogic/2002/sharpe.html (accessed May 20, 2005).
12. Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 1-5, 8-12.
13. Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," 162 ff.;
14. and Eagleton, On Ideology, 17-21.
15. Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 9, 25, 118.
16. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment, translated with analytical index by James Creed Meredith (Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1992), 14.
17. For Eagleton on Lukacs, of whom he is of course very aware, see Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 322-24;
18. and Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London: Methuen, 1976), 26-27.
19. Plato, Laws, 660-64;
20. Leo Strauss, "Plato," in The History of Political Philosophy, 3rd ed., ed. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 80-81;
21. and Catherine Zuckert, Postmodern Platos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 156-64.
22. Žižek, "Introduction," 6.
23. Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 1. In the remainder of part 1, page references to this work and only this work are in parentheses within the text.
24. Eagleton, On Ideology, 20.
25. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 70 ff.
26. Kant, Critique of Judgment, Ibid., 48-50.
27. See Kant, Critique of Judgment, ibid., 84-85, 182-83.
28. Or, to quote #VII of the "Introduction," Critique of Judgment, ibid., p. 30: If pleasure is connected with the mere apprehension of the form of an object of intuition feeling, apart from any reference it may have to a concept for the purpose of a definite cognition, this does not make the representation referable to the Object, but solely to the subject. In such a case the pleasure can express nothing but the conformity of the Object to the cognitive faculties brought into play in the reflecting power of judgment, and so far as they are in play, and hence merely a subjective formal finality of the object.
29. Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," 162-64.
30. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 83-84, 150-53.
31. Kant, Critique of Judgment, Ibid., 51.
32. Ralf Meerbote, "Reflection on Beauty," in Essays in Kant's Aesthetics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 75-76.
33. Karl Marx, Capital, in Marx (London: Encyclopedia Britannica: 1952), 30, 31.
34. Eagleton, On Ideology, 17.
35. Eagleton, On Ideology, Ibid., 18.
36. Žižek, "Introduction," 3-7.
37. Eagleton, On Ideology, 21.
38. Žižek, "Introduction," 14-15.
39. Eagleton, On Ideology, 19 (my italics).
40. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 137.
41. Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 212, 217-30.
42. Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), 45-46.
43. Žižek, Sublime Object, 36, 43, 44, 101, 124;
44. and Slavoj Žižek, Metastases of Enjoyment (London: Verso, 1994), chap. 3, "Superego by Default."
45. Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, 88.
46. Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," 118.
47. Žižek, Sublime Object, 110-14.
48. Žižek, Sublime Object, Ibid., 29-30.
49. E.g., Žižek, Sublime Object, ibid., 153-55;
50. and Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 4-5, 216-19.
51. Slavoj Žižek, The Indivisible Remainder (London: Verso, 1996).
52. Georgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 15-29.
53. Slavoj Žižek, Plague of Fantasies (London: Verso, 1997), 3 ff.
54. Slavoj Žižek, Plague of Fantasies, Ibid., 13-18;
55. and Slavoj Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, 2nd ed. (London: Verso, 2002), 201-14.
56. Žižek, Sublime Object, 124-28;
57. and Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 201-5.
58. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 46-47.
59. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 100 (no. 26).
60. Kant, Critique of Judgment, Ibid., 100.
61. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 47-49.
62. Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, 237-41.
63. Cf. Alenka Zupancic, The Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan (London: Verso, 2000), 149 ff.
64. Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! (London: Routledge, 2001), 118.
65. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 108-9.
66. Žižek, Sublime Object, 125.
67. Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 74-75.
68. Žižek, Sublime Object, 121-24.
69. Ernesto Laclau, "Preface," in Žižek, Sublime Object, xii-xv.
70. Žižek, Sublime Object, 100-105.
71. Žižek, Sublime Object, Ibid., 121-24;
72. and Žižek, Plague of Fantasies, 76-77.
73. Žižek, "Introduction," 3-7.
74. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 202.
75. Žižek, Plague of Fantasies, 107.
76. Žižek, Plague of Fantasies, Ibid., 106-9.
77. Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, 245-249.
78. Žižek, Sublime Object, 28-30, 33-35.
79. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 73 ff.
80. Žižek, Indivisible Remainder, 142.
81. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, edited by James T. Boulton (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; and New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), 63, n.10.
82. Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry, 59
83. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 201.
84. Žižek, Sublime Object, 100 ff.
85. Žižek, Sublime Object, Ibid., 68.
86. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 201.
87. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, Ibid., 201.
88. Žižek, Metastases of Enjoyment, chap. 3, "Superego by Default."
89. Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject (London: Verso, 1999), 391.
90. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 201, 203 (my italics).
91. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, translated by George Schwab with a new Foreword by Tracy B. Strong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
92. See Tracy B. Strong "Foreword," in Schmitt, Concept of the Political.
93. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 204.
94. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, Ibid., 203.
95. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 203, Ibid.
96. Žižek, Sublime Object, 124-28.
97. Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, 203.
98. Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, 188-97;
99. and Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! 42-46.
100. See the collection of essays by Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos, and Matthew Sharpe, Slavoj Žižek: Critical Responses (London: Ashgate, 2005).