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Article: The birth of the mummy from the spirit of ideology. (Special Section: Critical Theory and the Sociocultural Opening in Eastern Europe)
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- February 1, 1994
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The task of this paper is to trace the process, begun in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century, that led to a translation of the concept of ideology from the Western critical tradition to the language of the Eastern revolutionary endeavor, a translation that entirely converted its axiological sign. I will confine my inquiry to the shift in the understanding and conceptualization of ideology accomplished in the radical theoretical context built by the scholarly circle of Bakhtin, Medvedev, and Volosinov. I will not consider later theorists of ideology such as Althusser, even though his name may automatically occur to Western students of ideology. Althusser belongs to a ...