“Integral history” from the perspective of subalterns: contribution to a Marxist theory of history
A diachronic reconstruction of the concept of “integral history” in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks shows that two fundamental demands of the “philosophy of praxis” are articulated throughout this notion: 1) the need to re-define historical materialism (that is, a theory of history) from a particular per...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
2013
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/cma/article/view/19271 |
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| Summary: | A diachronic reconstruction of the concept of “integral history” in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks shows that two fundamental demands of the “philosophy of praxis” are articulated throughout this notion: 1) the need to re-define historical materialism (that is, a theory of history) from a particular perspective: the perspective of the popular masses in their political struggle for emancipation; 2) the need to counteract the revitalization of bourgeois hegemony proposed by Benedetto Croce through his “ethic-political history”, that Gramsci reads as a theory of “passive revolution”. If ethic-political history is based on the exclusion of conflict from history, integral history shows that this premise is not a theoretical element but a political need. In other words, the integral history reveals not only the “untruth” of Croce’s theoretical position, but at the same time its ability to produce a particular “truth”, that is to be an “hegemony”. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-9321 |
