Ideology is a key term in literary, cultural, political, and film studies. In this paper i will c... more Ideology is a key term in literary, cultural, political, and film studies. In this paper i will chart the concept of ideology from a Marxist point of view. The story of the emergence of the concept is complex under Marxist wing and does not seem to have reached at any consensual conclusion. But we can identify the individuals who greatly contributed to the concept. In the 20 th century Antanio Gramci and Louis Althuesser are two cultural theorists who, operating within the Marxist premise added to the meaning of the concept which broadened our horizon of the understanding of the concept. Though it is true that the concept has come a long way and many academicians, cultural theorists from diverse range of disciplines have refocused the way we understood the concept, the real contribution of these two was to transform our conception of ideology contextualizing it within the deep socio-political and economic framework of society and removed negative connotation associated with the concept. The paper is divided into two sections-1 and 2. The first section will present the account of intellectual treatment that Gramci and Althusser gave to the concept. In the second section of the paper there is an attempt to locate the site of ideology in the social texts-judgement of Supreme Court of India on IPC section 377 to understand how ideologies are or a singular ideology is an inherent undertone of our sociolinguistic transactions.
Ideology is a key term in literary, cultural, political, and film studies. In this paper i will c... more Ideology is a key term in literary, cultural, political, and film studies. In this paper i will chart the concept of ideology from a Marxist point of view. The story of the emergence of the concept is complex under Marxist wing and does not seem to have reached at any consensual conclusion. But we can identify the individuals who greatly contributed to the concept. In the 20 th century Antanio Gramci and Louis Althuesser are two cultural theorists who, operating within the Marxist premise added to the meaning of the concept which broadened our horizon of the understanding of the concept. Though it is true that the concept has come a long way and many academicians, cultural theorists from diverse range of disciplines have refocused the way we understood the concept, the real contribution of these two was to transform our conception of ideology contextualizing it within the deep socio-political and economic framework of society and removed negative connotation associated with the concept. The paper is divided into two sections-1 and 2. The first section will present the account of intellectual treatment that Gramci and Althusser gave to the concept. In the second section of the paper there is an attempt to locate the site of ideology in the social texts-judgement of Supreme Court of India on IPC section 377 to understand how ideologies are or a singular ideology is an inherent undertone of our sociolinguistic transactions.
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