Rethinking the Critique of Ideology: Resources from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Critical Theory and Practice

Joshua M. Makalintal

doi:10.5771/9783689006068

Summary

In this book, Joshua Miguel Makalintal offers a reconstructive reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’s ideology-critical sociology. Drawing on a selection of Du Bois’s works alongside contemporary scholarship emphasizing his Marxist and anti-imperialist thought and practice, the author sketches a Du Boisian approach to the subversion of modern social relations of domination—one that, in turn, further sharpens and extends the contours of critical theory and counterhegemonic theorizing by rearticulating the essence of social critique as a method of transformative praxis—aimed not only at unmasking but also at confronting and resisting the tenacious augmentation of the contradictions, crises, and catastrophes of our world.
This work received the Austrian Sociological Society’s Early-Career Researcher Award for Outstanding Doctoral and Master’s Theses (Nachwuchspreis für herausragende Dissertationen und Masterarbeiten der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie) (2025).

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Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-68900-605-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-68900-606-8
Publisher: Tectum, Baden-Baden
Series: Young Academics: Soziologie
Volume: 17
Language: English
Pages: 121
Product Type: Monograph

1. Preface No access
2. Rethinking Critique: Foreword to this Edition (2026) No access
3. Foreword and Acknowledgments (2024) No access
1. 1. Context and Objectives No access
2. 2. Structure and Approach No access
3. 3. On the Significance of Social Critique and Praxis No access
1. 1. Pioneering the Black Radical Tradition: On Du Bois’s Anti-Disciplinary Public Sociology No access
2. 2. The Conundrum for Duboisian Sociological Thought and the Question of Ideology No access
1. 1. Sketching the Critical-Theoretical Dimensions of the Ideological No access
2. 2. Contesting Critical Theory’s Imperial Blind Spots No access
1. 1. Unveiling the Problem of the Color Line as a Problem of Ideology No access
2. 2. Subverting the Color Line: Articulating and Amplifying Emancipatory Practices No access
Chapter V: Concluding Reflections: Confronting the “Problem of the Future World” No access Pages 73 - 78
References No access Pages 79 - 92