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_id: '46448'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'We live in times of deep crisis. General crises of society often are accompanied
    by ideological struggles. Given this context, it is important that social theory
    reinvigorates the analysis of ideology. For doing so, it makes sense to engage
    with classical theories of ideology. This paper contributes to this task. It asks:
    How are the economic and the non-economic related? What is ideology? This article
    deals with the base/superstructure problem and the problem of ideology via an
    engagement with selected aspects of Stuart Hall’s, Georg Lukács’s and Raymond
    Williams’s works. The commonality of Hall’s, Lukács’s and Williams’s thoughts
    that makes a joint engagement with their works feasible is that they all three
    dealt with aspects of culture from a critical theory perspective and are in one
    way or another representatives of Cultural Marxism. While Lukács’s works and Cultural
    Studies are often presented as conflicting approaches, this paper shows that concerning
    the question of how the economic and the non-economic are related and how we can
    think of ideology, the approaches of Lukács, Williams, and Hall complement each
    other, which allows critical theories of culture to draw on all three approaches
    and to combine elements from them in a synergistic manner. There are parallels
    between Williams’, Hall’s, and Lukács’s solutions to the base/superstructure problem.
    Williams argues that the economic exerts pressures on and sets limits to the non-economic.
    Hall writes that the economic determines the non-economic in the first instance.
    Lukács argues that the economic circumscribes subjectivity and the non-economic.'
author:
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Fuchs, Christian
  id: '21863'
  last_name: Fuchs
  orcid: 0000-0003-0589-4579
citation:
  ama: Fuchs C. The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in the Works of Stuart
    Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. <i>The Communication Review</i>. Published
    online 2023. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  ">10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    </a>
  apa: Fuchs, C. (2023). The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in the Works
    of Stuart Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. <i>The Communication Review.</i>
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  ">https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    </a>
  bibtex: '@article{Fuchs_2023, title={The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology
    in the Works of Stuart Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    ">10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  </a>}, journal={The Communication Review.}, author={Fuchs,
    Christian}, year={2023} }'
  chicago: Fuchs, Christian. “The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in
    the Works of Stuart Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams.” <i>The Communication
    Review.</i>, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  ">https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    </a>.
  ieee: 'C. Fuchs, “The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in the Works
    of Stuart Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams,” <i>The Communication Review.</i>,
    2023, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  ">10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    </a>.'
  mla: Fuchs, Christian. “The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in the
    Works of Stuart Hall, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams.” <i>The Communication
    Review.</i>, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068 
    ">10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  </a>.
  short: C. Fuchs, The Communication Review. (2023).
date_created: 2023-08-07T11:46:37Z
date_updated: 2024-06-10T13:47:16Z
department:
- _id: '136'
- _id: '11'
doi: '10.1080/10714421.2023.2242068  '
keyword:
- base and superstructure
- culture
- economy and culture
- Georg Lukács
- ideology
- Raymond Williams
- Stuart Hall
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '1084'
  name: 'PÖM: Politische Ökonomie der Medien und der Kommunikation'
publication: The Communication Review.
publication_status: published
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: The Problems of Base/Superstructure and Ideology in the Works of Stuart Hall,
  Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams
type: journal_article
user_id: '21863'
year: '2023'
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