Transfer of ideology into science

Abstract

The subject of reflection in this paper will be the transfer of ideology into science inspired by Milan Brdar's book 'A call in vain'. The aim of the paper is to show, through a detailed analysis of the conflict and the shift of the ruling discourses in pre-modern society and the modern epoch, the separation of science from religion, but also the ideological conquest of philosophy and social sciences. Although modern era strives to humanity, reasonableness, equality and freedom, it is not exempt from totalitarianism which is actually a tradition as old as civilization itself. Totalitarian properties of certain philosophies have elements of creating myths, fostering bias, distortion of history and historical facts, and, on top of all, the rejection of different ideas and opinions. Milan Brdar describes modernism as a self-disputing project which, due to the chronic conflict of ruling discourses led to a shift of historical scenery, with respect to ideologies that imposed false dilemmas, took the souls and instrumentalized the mind. Therefore, in this paper, special attention will be paid to the term ideology, which will be explained in detail on the basis of Manheim's work 'Ideology and Utopia', which is considered a turning point in the development of sociology and represents the embarcation and theoretical articulation of the sociology of knowledge as a new discipline that provides methodical and institutional completion of social sciences.