Politics and ideology : a philosophical approach / Oded Balaban.

Foreword / David Lamb -- 1. The difference between theory and meta-theory -- 2. The difference between form and content of knowledge -- 3. Classical knowledge: genus and species -- 4. Nomological knowledge -- 5. A critique of nomological knowledge -- 6. Post-nomological knowledge -- 7. Introduction to the critique of ideology -- 8. The positivist concept of ideology -- 9. The formalist concept of ideology -- 10. The concept of fetishism -- 11. Ideology as a need -- 12. Ideology as justification -- 13. The concept of politics and the concept of the State -- 14. The general theory of politics -- 15. The political use of ideology -- 16. The particular theory of politics -- 17. Goals and circumstances -- 18. Anti-formalist historiography -- 19. John F. Kennedy's general policy -- 20. John F. Kennedy's Vietnam policy -- 21. The dichotomy between political theory and political practice: neutrality as complicity.