Ideology in Lukács' Ontology
Ideology; Ontology; Class struggle.
This thesis aimed to analyze the social complex of ideology. The thesis is the product of an immanent investigation, in an initial phase, of the Prolegomena to the ontology of the social being and of To the ontology of the social being, mainly the chapter The ideal and ideology, by Georg Lukács. Thus, the interest of this research was situated in capturing, in Lukács' exposition, the genesis and social function of ideology and the place occupied by it within the totality of social being. The defense undertaken in this exposition is that, for the author of Ontology, what defines ideology is its dual social function, which can be correctly apprehended only in its historical-concrete determination. It started from the assumption that, for Lukács, ideology is a universal categorical complex of the social being, which acts as that form of intellectual elaboration of reality, which serves to make the social praxis of human beings conscious and capable of action, while it is also the mediation of the social struggles that characterize class societies.