چكيده لاتين :
This paper aims to shed light on the problem besetting ideology as
established in the work of Paul Ricoeur. While the term ideology has
tended to have negative connotations, Ricoeur argues that ideology also
has a positive, integrative function in the realms of social transformation
and cultural imagination. Thus, he questions the common connotation
of ideology as an exclusively critical or negative term. Following Marx,
Weber, and Geertz, Ricoeur argues that ideology can be conceptualized in
three ways: distortion, legitimation, and integration. For him, ideology has
a function beyond dissimulation and legitimacy: that of maintaining group
identity and group integration in society. Ricoeur calls his approach in the
lectures a “regressive analysis of meaning,” an “attempt to dig under the
surface of the apparent meaning to the more fundamental meanings”,
and a “genetic phenomenology in the sense proposed by Husserl in his
Cartesian Mediations” in order to recognize the claim of a concept which
is at first sight merely a polemical tool. The first three sections of this
paper investigate Ricoeur’s account of ideology and his attempts to make
the term more “honest” through his three conceptions of it: distortion,
legitimation and integration. The conclusion summarizes the major themes
articulated in those discussions, and suggests further directions to explore
toward the positive conceptualizing of ideology
