Ideology existed only from the bourgeois period onward

Evidence

If ideologies are not only manifestations of the socially necessary consciousness in its essential falsity, if there is an aspect to them that can lay a claim to truth inasmuch as it transcends the status quo in utopian fashion, even if only for purposes of justification, then ideology exists at all only from this period on. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2366

Categorization

• DEFINE: Habermas’s claim that ideological truth-content is a historically specific (bourgeois) phenomenon.
• XREF: connects to: Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions; Bourgeois ideology fragments classes into possessive individual subjects. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 912; By the seventeenth century the new bourgeoisies held purely mercantilist ideology (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions #qualifies (0.75)
• By the seventeenth century the new bourgeoisies held purely mercantilist ideology #exemplifies (0.75)
• Bourgeois ideology fragments classes into possessive individual subjects. #expands (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 912