Why “ideology” is still relevant to music education theory

In: Zeitschrift für Kritische Musikpädagogik (Journal of Critical Music Education) (ZfKM), 2017, pp.35-51. URL: http://www.zfkm.org/17-vogt1.pdf

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2024

In this editorial, I push forward discussion within ideology studies about whether ideology should be seen as a collective or an individual phenomenon. I talk about how the thought of particular thinkers is elevated to the status of 'name-tagged' ideologies, and what that means for how we receive and interpret it. I put forward a number of models for how we should understand the relationship between collective and individual ideologies, as familles spirituelles, rosters, statements of accounts, 'bodies ideologic', and ideal theories. I talk about how the idea of hybridity affects the processes of our ideological socialisation. And I give examples for how this theoretical advance can be used in both the study of canonical thinkers in political theory and the history of ideas, and the study of everyday thinking and ordinary behaviour.

Academia Letters, 2021

The historical roots of the concept of ideology can be traced back to the French Revolution, when Antoine Destutt de Tracy proposed the "science des idées", or the study and analysis of ideas and thought-formation. 1 Contemporary definitions of ideology continue to make reference to this notion. Social psychologist L.B. Brown, for example, defines ideology as "systems of thought and explanations that underlie many forms of social and individual behaviour." 2 Categorically, some definitions describe the notion of ideology in economic and political terms, 3 while others are centered on the purpose of ideology -which includes providing a means of understanding reality, reinforcing existing ideologies, and promoting particular vested interests 4 . While these definitions are all valid, they are premised on the foundational definition of ideology as a system of interrelated thoughts and ideas.

2022

NB: This is the full text of the manuscript as submitted for publication. Over its long history, the concept of ideology has acquired a vast and at times incommensurable roster of meanings: positive and negative, analytic and critical, philosophical, psychological and scientific. But how precisely should we understand and study ideology today? What is its connection to key issues in social life and social research, such as capitalism and class, democracy and partisanship, nationality, sex and gender, race and ethnicity? In this book, Marius S. Ostrowski navigates a path through the complex maze of ideology’s rival interpretations, tracing the shifting fortunes of ideology analysis from its classical origins to its recent renaissance. The result is a concise interdisciplinary overview of how ideologies combine and arrange ideas and how they manifest in our psychology and behaviour. Drawing on a wide array of examples from across the world, the book outlines the historical preconditions that allowed modern ideologies to emerge and illuminates how we experience ideology’s influence in our day-to-day lives. Ideology will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars across the social sciences and anyone seeking to understand the way ideology shapes how we understand the world around us.

Orbis Musicae, 13, 107–115., 2003

2016

Capitalist subjectivity can be thought of as being structured by mass-society and ideologies. This seems especially apparent in times of crisis. To a certain extend we can grasp these ideologies as illusions of the collective mind. However, I’m concerned that this perspective is too general to describe the specific character of modern-type ideologies such as nationalism, anti-Semitism and racism. The critical theorists Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer developed a differentiated concept which can help us to understand the specifics of the above ideologies. In this essay I will point to an as of yet unresolved contradiction within their concept. My aim is to resolve this contradiction by reconstruction, using Detlev Claussen’s notion of religions of everyday life (Alltagsreligionen) in the process. After this I will make a case for renewing the concept of ideology as an analytic tool and I will end by sketching some preliminary thoughts on its use in

This paper discusses a shift in contemporary ideological justification and its implications for the critique of ideology. Traditionally, the critique of ideology aimed to dispel ideological illusions. However, it has become increasingly challenging to pinpoint these illusions. Instead, ideological justifications hinge more than ever on functional necessities, presenting themselves as the sole practical solution to a given problem. I argue that ideologies of functional necessities pose problems for the established standard model of ideology. In section one, I discuss the standard model. In section two, I introduce the 'functionalist challenge' to the notion of ideology and lay out my reasoning for the contended inefficacy of simply dispelling ideological illusions. In section three, I discuss the resulting problems for a critical theory of ideology and possible ways to address them.

Constellations, 2014

2017