Truth and Ideology

Truth and Ideology, by Swiss philosopher Hans Barth and translated into English by Frederic Lilge, is a landmark work in the history of ideas. First published in 1945, the book traces the transformation of the concept of ideology from its eighteenth-century origins to its radical formulations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Barth shows how a term once meant to designate systematic inquiry into human thought came to carry the pejorative sense of false consciousness and parti...