This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.<BR><BR><EM>Ideology</EM>:<BR>*traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day<BR>*asks why ideology matters<BR>*examines ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism.<BR>With plenty of clear examples to illuminate the discussion, <EM>Ideology</EM> offers an accessible introduction to this controversial and widely debated critical concept.