Critique of ideology and skepticism

Abstract

This text is concerned with possibility of critique of ideology. Since ideology is usually explained as omnipresent, its critique should be taken as ideological too. In order to examin the possibility of avoiding such consequence, we are analysing few powerful solutions to that problem (Marx, Althusser, Žižek, Paul de Man). At some point, we are proposing Levinas’ discourse on skepticisim and its refutation as a model for understanding the relations of ideology and its critique.

U ovom tekstu postavlja se pitanje mogućnosti kritike ideologije. Budući da je omniprezentnost ideologije ono što diskursi o njoj, po pravilu, tvrde ili podrazumevaju, postaje upitno koliko je izvodljivo da i njena kritika ne bude ideologizovana. Ispitujući nekoliko predloga o uređivanju odnosa ideologije i njene kritike (Marks, Altiser, Žižek, Pol de Man), dolazimo do Levinasovog para skepticizam / odbacivanje skepticizma, koji se ispituje kao model održivosti kritike ideologije.