What is ideology? An attempt at reactualizing a category of social critique
What is ideology? An attempt at reactualizing a category of social critique

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to show how the concept of ideology can be actualizted by using some methodological merits of contemporary analytic philosophy. The following four main features of ideological statements can be identified as а result of the attempt to reconstruct this concept in a new systematic way: (1) lack of dialogic openness; (2) secondary legitimations of pre-discursive opinions transporting particular political interests and power aspirations; (3) naturalizations of premises; and (4) concealment of the genetic link between the above-mentioned pre-discursive opinions, and particular political interests and power aspirations. These four main features of ideology are illustrated by an analysis of justification patterns used by members of the former communist secret services.

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