Ideologies that explain everything from a single premise are a recent phenomenon

Evidence

How the concept of Ideology passed from meaning “science of ideas” and “analysis of the origin of ideas” to meaning a specific “system of ideas” needs to be examined historically. In purely logical terms the process is easy to grasp and understand. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1336 (#expands, via linked claim)

“Ideology” was an aspect of “sensationalism”, i.e. eighteenth-century French materialism. Its original meaning was that of “science of ideas”, and since analysis was the only method recognised and applied by science it means “analysis of ideas”, that is, “investigation of the origin of ideas”. Ideas had to be broken down into their original “elements”, and these could be nothing other than “sensations”. Ideas derived from sensations. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1334 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• The original meaning of ideology was the science of how ideas derive from sensations (similarity 0.91)
• Ideology’s shift from science of ideas to system of ideas demands historical explanation (similarity 0.88)
• Explanatory ideologies that deduce everything from a single premise are a recent historical phenomenon. (similarity 0.87)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideologies apply the logic of an idea to history as an unfolding process. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.83)
• The term ‘ideology’ conflates necessary superstructure with arbitrary individual fancies (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.82)
• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies claim total explanation of past, present, and future. (similarity 0.82)
• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology critique has been shadowed by claims to absolute truth since its inception (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Ideology’s shift from science of ideas to system of ideas demands historical explanation #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1336
• Ideological thinking derives everything from an axiomatic premise and becomes immune to experience #exemplifies (0.72)
• The original meaning of ideology was the science of how ideas derive from sensations #corroborates (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1334