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DESCRIPTION:Jaime Edwards will give a talk titled "Marx's Ideological Criti
 ques\," the first Philosophy talk of the 2024-25 academic year.\n\nAbstrac
 t: Marx claims that most moral\, religious\, political\, and economic thou
 ght is ideological. However\, while this provocative idea is widely consid
 ered one of Marx’s most distinctive contributions\, in his various remar
 ks on ideological belief across his decades-long career\, he never precise
 ly specifies what he means by the concept\, and he employs it in several d
 ifferent ways at different points in his work. Moreover\, the concept has 
 been extended by others working in the Marxist tradition beyond how Marx h
 imself used it. Consequently\, though the term itself has entered the comm
 on vernacular\, commentators have remained divided on what Marx himself re
 ally intended by it. This talk will aim to trace out Marx’s various uses
  of the concept in more detail\, identify what I take to be the essential 
 characteristics of ideology across Marx’s different applications\, disti
 nguish his account from those of subsequent accounts of ideology with whic
 h it is often misleadingly equated\, and note where contemporary theory le
 nds support to Marx’s troubling account.\n\nJaime Edwards earned his PhD
  in philosophy at the University of Chicago.  He is currently a Lecturer i
 n Law at the University of Chicago Law School.  His research explores ideo
 logical belief—the complex ways in which our beliefs are shaped by socia
 l and political forces in a manner that reinforces existing power hierarch
 ies that disadvantage the vast majority. Most recently\, he has been explo
 ring the limitations ideology places on our understanding of political com
 munity and obligations. \n\nOff campus\, Edwards teaches essay writing in 
 prisons and organizse citizenship classes for refugees preparing to take t
 he US citizenship exam.
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LOCATION:King Building\, 343
SUMMARY:Philosophy Talk: Marx's Ideological Critiques
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 logical-critiques
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