Concept
Ideology
Overview
An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
The term was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher, who conceived it in 1796 as the "science of ideas" to develop a rational system of ideas. In political science, the term is used in a descriptive sense to refer to political belief systems.
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Philosophers who discussed Ideology
- Feminism
- Norberto Bobbio
- Julian Huxley
- Slavoj Žižek
- Max Horkheimer
- Intellectual
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Michael Oakeshott
- Young Marx
- György Lukács
- Michel Foucault
- John Hospers
- Antonio Gramsci
- Ernst Bloch
- Ernesto Laclau
- Alexandre Kojève
- Louis Althusser
- Allan Bloom
- Jean Piaget
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
- Hans Blumenberg
- Sarah Kofman
- Aleksei Losev
- Kenneth Wain
Related ideas
- Euroscepticism
- Belief
- The End of History and the Last Man
- French language
- Cognition
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Social system
- Vladimir Lenin
- Francis Fukuyama
- Federalism
- Free market
- Government
- Harvard University Press
- Philosophy
- Hierarchy
- Interpretation (logic)
- Power (social and political)
- Joseph Stalin
- Guy Debord
- Reactionary
- Idea
- Jürgen Habermas
- Slavoj Žižek
- Karl Marx
Opposing perspectives
- History
- Individualism
- Republicanism
- Right-wing politics
- Anthropology
- Unconscious mind
- Uncertainty
- Anti-authoritarianism
- Communism
- Genealogy (philosophy)
- Garrett Hardin
- Historicity (philosophy)
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.