Expanding the interpretive horizon transforms the object of study itself.

Evidence

When we pass into the second phase, and find that the semantic horizon within which we grasp a cultural object has widened to include the social order, we will find that the very object of our analysis has itself been thereby dialectically transformed, and that it is no longer construed as an individual “text” or work in the narrow sense, but has been reconstituted in the form of -the great collective and class dis­ courses of which a text is little more than an individual parole or utter­ ance. Within this new horizon, then, our object of study will prove to be the ideologeme, that is, the smallest intelligible unit of the essentially antagonistic collective discourses of social classes. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1738

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ideologeme — the smallest intelligible unit of antagonistic class discourse — which is a core Jamesonian concept for the interpretive method.
• XREF: The ideologeme-as-parole recalls the Saussurean langue/parole distinction Jameson is adapting; connects to his broader appropriation of structural linguistics into Marxist hermeneutics. — connects to: The study balanced expanding its ideological coverage against contracting its quantitative procedures. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 730; A new philosophy is defined by transforming how philosophy itself is conceived; Concepts are reflections that explain things through context beyond immediate experience — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 423 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Orientalist’s constructed Orient displaced the Orient itself as the object of study #exemplifies (0.88) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 342
• A new philosophy is defined by transforming how philosophy itself is conceived #exemplifies (0.82)
• Phenomenology demanded a transformative mode of thinking that also yielded concrete results #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 150
• Understanding requires breaking into congealed appearances via the detour through theory. #exemplifies (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1195
• Concepts are reflections that explain things through context beyond immediate experience #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 423
• Keeping the organic-intellectual ideal in view changes the character of scholarly work #exemplifies (0.72)