Rethinking the Critique of Ideology

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).