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expresses disagreement or disapproval, but who is able to bring to light the belief's true conditions of possible existence. Because conditions are constantly changing, showing a belief's existence to be built on mere conditions implicitly shows that they are not eternal, natural, or organic, but are instead historical, contingent, and therefore changeable. Frankfurt School philosopher
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centers and widely dispersed reception necessitates organization and planning by those in control. The standardized forms, it is claimed, were originally derived from the needs of the consumers: that is why they are accepted with so little resistance. In reality, a cycle of manipulation and retroactive need is unifying the system ever more tightly.
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Interested parties like to explain the culture industry in technological terms. Its millions of participants, they argue, demand reproduction processes which inevitably lead to the use of standard products to meet the same needs at countless locations. The technical antithesis between few production
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found in cultural texts, whether those texts be works of popular culture or high culture, philosophy or TV advertisements. These ideologies can be expressed implicitly or explicitly. The focus is on analyzing and demonstrating the underlying ideological assumptions of the texts and then criticizing
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The term "critique" is also employed in a special manner. Rather than a synonym for criticism, "critique" comes from
Immanuel Kant's usage of the term, which meant an investigation into the structures under which we live, think, and act. A critic of ideology, in this sense, is not merely one who
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reasoning as ideological. It is not merely a false belief: it is a false worldview or philosophy which enables the maintenance of the contingent, historical status quo while appearing to be objective and scientific. A major theme of the
Frankfurt School is that those modes of thinking which, at
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defines ideology as "any attempt to objectify the human mind to eradicate the historical dimensions of it, to turn something which is historically contingent, produced by humans, into some kind of natural necessity." In the work of Marx and Engels, ideology was the false belief that capitalist
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saw a new focus on the importance of ideology among
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society was a product of human nature, when in reality it had been imposed, often violently, in particular circumstances, in particular places, at particular historical periods.
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of ideology has a particular understanding of "ideology," distinct from political perspective or opinions. This specialized meaning comes from the term's root in the works of
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the attitude of these works. An important part of ideology critique has to do with “looking suspiciously at works of art and debunking them as tools of oppression”.
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Marxist definition of ideology is false belief, emergent from the oppressive society which educates its citizens to be obedient workers. The failures of the
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