Ideology as a transfigurateded form of “the other”: the essay on philosophical approximation to the concept

Abstract

The article explores the reasons for preservation in European culture (both Eastern and Western) of attitudes towards political ideology as “false consciousness.” Analysis of the Marxist “origin” of this phenomenon allows you to see the roots of the problem in a vulgarized idea of Marxist heritage as it is in mass consciousness, as well as notice (at the level of theoretical ideas) the tendency to take as a whole only part of the Marxian theory of ideology. A more general reason for the distorted vision of ideology opens when analytical approach is supplemented with a historical – narrative methodology for knowing this phenomenon: it becomes possible to draw attention to the tendency displayed by a number of representatives of socio-humanitarian knowledge – to carry out a philosophically capacious search for a holistic concept of ideology; the latter is presented by them in the form of a historically transforming phenomenon, rooted in antiquity. This vision of ideology contains approaches to awareness of its value-symbolic nature. The conclusions and results of the study can be used in educational and scientific/theoretical activities.