ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the “end of ideology” narrative. It analyzes narratives about “Liberal democracy” as “post” or “no-ideology” ideology, advanced at the end of the Cold War and in its aftermath. In terms of the timespan, the themes discussed in this chapter are situated approximately in the period between the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the financial crisis of 2008. The chapter also includes “Excursus I,” which discusses the concepts of “theory,” “ideology” and “practice” that are in many ways crucial for the way contemporary ideological narratives frame their positions and their, supposedly, “non-ideological” (or “purely practical”) character.
