Prehistory and Modernity of Ideology

A Nomadic Notion

Abstract

With the purpose of situating the statute of the term ideology, the text develops an overview from its early original scene pointing out its semantic and conceptual mutations in the various modern debates. Such a tour analyzes the ideology conceived as a science of ideas in the field of zoology through a theory of social Darwinism promoted by Destutt de Tracy. Then we address the radical turns that such a notion experiences as opacity in Francis Bacon through an epistemic reformism, which leads us to false consciousness in the Marxist tradition, opening litigation circulating in post-Fordist cultures. Finally, the article establishes criteria on the multipurpose of the Lacanian school that make ideology a fantasmatic place in the production of subjectivity, without back or exteriority, where different attributions of meaning prevail. Finally, the article establishes criteria on the multipurpose of the Lacanian school that make ideology a fantasmatic place in the production of subjectivity, without back or exteriority, where different attributions of meaning prevail.