Cover-- Half-title-- Title page-- Copyright information-- Dedication-- Table of contents-- Acknowledgments-- Introduction-- 1. The Tangled History of Ideology Critique-- 2. The Functional Critique of Ideology-- 3. The Epistemic Critique of Ideology-- 4. The Neo- Kantian Variation of Epistemic Ideology Critique-- 5. The Neo- Hegelian Variation of Epistemic Ideology Critique-- 6. The Core Arguments of This Study-- 7. Methodological Strategies-- Part I The Dialectic of Ideology-- 1 In and of This World: The Dual Status of Thought-- 1.1 The Noncognitive Dimensions of Thought-- 1.2 The Birth of Modern Epistemology 1.3 Bridging the Gap between Effects and Function1.4 Discretely Relating the Dual Dimensions of Belief-- 1.5 Synthesizing the Dual Dimensions of Belief-- 2 The Immanent Destruction of Functional Ideology Critique: Nietzsche, Foucault, Althusser-- 2.1 The Self-destruction of Radical Critique-- 2.2 The Symbiosis of Positivism and Functional Ideology Critique-- 2.3 The Positivistic, Baconian, and Misleading Rhetoric of Karl Marx-- 2.4 Functional Ideology Critique and the Primacy of Power-- 2.5 Functional Ideology Critique and the Loss of the Victim-- Part II On Ideology and Violence 3 Jean Jacques Rousseau: Economic Oppression, the Gaze of the ...3.1 The Pre-Marxist Origins of Functional Ideology Critique-- 3.2 The Ideological Deployment of Luxury, Amour-propre, and the State-- 3.3 The Allure of Naturalized Violence-- 3.4 Rousseau's Unwitting Progeny-- 4 Max Stirner: The Bohemian Left and the Violent Self- loathing of the Bourgeoisie-- 4.1 The German Ideologist Par Excellence-- 4.2 Dividing the Weak from the Strong-- 4.3 Instruments of Voluntary Servitude-- 4.4 Capitalism and the Conflicted Nature of Bohemian Experience-- 4.5 Capitalism and the Misery of Proletarian Existence 5 Marx Contra Stirner: The Parting of Ways5.1 An Existential Analysis of Marxism-- 5.2 A Socioanalytic Critique of Stirner's Existentialism-- 5.3 The Monotony of Pure Difference-- 5.4 The Bohemian Left and the Ideological Dream of Revolution-- Part III A Marxist Theory of Knowledge-- 6 German Visions of the French Revolution: On the Interpretation of Dreams-- 6.1 Ideological Inversion as Cognitive Sublimation-- 6.2 German Idealism as the Paradigm for Ideology-- 6.3 Confronting the Heritage of German Idealism-- 6.4 Marx's Practice of Socioanalytic Reading-- 6.5 Marx's Theory of Socioanalytic Reading 7 The Social Crisis and the Vocation of Reason: Mannheim as Epistemologist7.1 Diagnosing the Crisis-- 7.2 Ideology Critique and the End of the Weimar Republic-- 7.3 Mannheim's Reckless Gambit-- 7.4 Restoring Mannheim's German Heritage-- 7.5 Precluding Pragmatic Misinterpretations-- 7.6 Mannheim's Meta-epistemological Insight-- 8 Practice, Reflection, Sublimation, Critique: Social Ontology and Social Knowledge-- 8.1 Interested Knowledge and the Possibility of Rational Consensus-- 8.2 Interests That Are Knowledge-intrinsic-- 8.3 Knowledge-intrinsic Interests That Are Social.