Theory and History of Ideological Production: The First Bourgeois Literatures (the 16th Century)

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University of Delaware Press, 2002 - 316 pages
To explain a text, according to Rodriguez, is to locate it precisley at a real historical conjuncture, to situate it ideologically. This insistence on the historicity of literature saved Rodriguez from the fate that, from the late 1970s onward, overtook many Althusserians. The latter, unable to historicise and therefore transcend the key category of the subject, refused to rank 'real art' among the ideologies, as a result of which their concept of literary 'production' remained locked in a Kantian- and therefore eminently bourgeois- problematic. For Rodriguez, in contrast, ideology could not be the discourse of the subject, for the simple reason that the subject was itself an historical category, whose origins were to be found in animism, the ideology of the bourgeoisie during its early, mercantilist phase. As an emergent ideology, animism stood in contradiction to substantialism, its dominant counterpart under feudalism, that manifestly had no place for a 'free subject'. The analysis of these conflictual ideologies, during the protracted transition in Spain from feudalism to capitalism, constitutes the kernel of Theory and History of Ideological Production. University of Granada.
 

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one basic work about what cannot remain part of
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Authors preface to the English translation
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Introduction
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Part I
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that functions as mere contingency but which at the
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Part II
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Part III
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nevertheless constitutes a treatise on what is recognizably the
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Boscán and Garcilaso on the one hand and
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and of veneration The proper name gradually increases
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unfurls a productivity based on the effect widespread and
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Part IV
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