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Law and Belief : A Pragmatist Interpretation of the Althusserian Conception of Legal Ideology

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Maesschalck, Marc [UCL] Bruschi, Fabio [UCL]

This article aims to interpret the Althusserian critique of ideology in order to put forth the mechanisms at work within the relation of belief that constitutes every ideology and to insist on its practical consequences on the relation between the intellectual and the masses. To do so, we will draw upon Althusser’s review of humanism, upon his commentaries of the work of Montesquieu and Rousseau, and upon his conception of ideology in the article from 1970 on ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ and in other texts of the same period. By focusing on an analysis of the functioning of belief within the three cardinal forms of ideology (moral, legal and political), we will highlight the importance of putting into place a social critique attentive to the repetition of the relations of belief with regard to enabling truly transformative actions.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Journal information "Law and Critique : journal of critical legal studies" - Vol. 26, no. 3, p. 281-303 (2015)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht)
issn 0957-8536
e-issn 1572-8617
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/JURI/PJTD - Théorie du droit
Keywords Althusser ; Belief ; Humanism ; Ideology ; Marx ; Overdetermination ; Social criticism ; State Apparatuses
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Bibliographic reference Maesschalck, Marc ; Bruschi, Fabio. Law and Belief : A Pragmatist Interpretation of the Althusserian Conception of Legal Ideology. In: Law and Critique : journal of critical legal studies, Vol. 26, no. 3, p. 281-303 (2015)
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