Séminaire d'étude doctorale

Séminaire d'étude doctorale Mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 15h30 dans La Petite Salle des Colloques"Les expressions idéologiquesdans les médias américains contemporains"par Mme. Zineb Belarif et M. Patrick Litsangaou, (Doctorants à l'université Paris Ouest Nanterre La défense, département d'études anglophones)Ideology:1)Any system of ideas underlying and informing social and political action.2) More particularly, any system of ideas which justifies or legitimates the subordination of one group by another.3)An all-embracing encyclopaedic knowledge, capable of breaking down prejudice and of use in social reform. This sense would appear to be the original usage, when the term was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy in the period of social optimism in the French Enlightenment. Thus, between sense 3 and sense 2 there has occurred a full reversal of meaning. It is senses 1 and 2 which are now of prime interest. In the work of Marx and Engels, which has had most influence in the development of the theory of ideology, the term had several connotations. In The German Ideology , Marx and Engels emphasized two points. The first was that ideologies presented a picture of the world from the point of view of a Ruling Class. The second was that this picture was necessarily a distorted one because the interests of the ruling class are, by definition, partial and because they do not represent the interests of humanity in general. In later criticisms and developments, ...