An ideology in its highest sense is a world-conception permeating all social life

Evidence

One might say “ideology” here, but on condition that the word is used in its highest sense of a conception of the world that is implicitly manifest in art, in law, in economic activity and in all manifestations of individual and collective life. This problem is that of preserving the ideological unity of the entire social bloc which that ideology serves to cement and to unify. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1186

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘ideology’ in Gramsci’s ‘highest sense’ — a conception of the world manifest implicitly across art, law, economy, and all life.
• XREF: This is the foundation for later Islamophobia-work definitions of ideology as lived common sense rather than mere doctrine; links to hegemonic analysis chapters. — connects to: The economy has become synonymous with all social life including self-relations — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 937; The reality principle is itself the highest form of ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 990