Ideology critique reveals that unfree philosophies converge in philosophical idealism.

Evidence

The Marxist critique of ideology, in his hands, became an instrument with which to criticize the elevation of abstractions into autonomous beings and to show that all unfree philosophies, every philosophy not open to the experience of `reality’, converged in philosophical idealism, prima philosophia. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 564

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Adorno’s operative definition of ideology critique and ‘prima philosophia’ as the target of that critique.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters on Adorno’s critique of identity-thinking and the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s account of abstraction. — connects to: Progress as ideology differs fundamentally from becoming as philosophy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1275; Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 609; Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Progress as ideology differs fundamentally from becoming as philosophy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1275; Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 609; Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones #complicates (0.75)
• Progress as ideology differs fundamentally from becoming as philosophy #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1275