ideology
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Etymology [edit]
From French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie (equivalent to English ideo- + -logy). Coined 1796 by Destutt de Tracy.[1][2] Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.
Noun [edit]
ideology (plural ideologies)
- Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
Usage notes [edit]
Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.
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Translations [edit]
doctrine, body of ideas
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study of the origin and nature of ideas
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References [edit]
- ^ Kennedy, Emmet (1979) “Ideology” from Destutt De Tracy to Marx, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Jul.–Sep., 1979), pp. 353–368
- ^ Hart, David M. (2002) Destutt De Tracy: Annotated Bibliography
- ideology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ideology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
