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Historicism, absolute

Historicism, absolute Historicism, absolute A: at-t à r ì¢ì ya al-mu † laqa. – G: Historizismus, absoluter. F : historicisme absolu. – R: absoljutnyi istorizm. S : historicismo absoluto. C: juedui lishi zhuyi Th e expression ‘absolute historicism’ appears only three times in the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci . It appears for the first time, as a subject for further investigation, in the first note that Gramsci writes with the title ‘An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy’ (Q 8, §204). Its second appearance (perhaps the most well known quotation) is in ‘Concept of “Orthodoxy”’, as a concluding formulation to the important additional passage (note 1) which argues that ‘it has been forgotten that in the case of a very common expression one should put the accent on the first term – “historical” – and not on the second, which is of metaphysical origin. Th e philosophy of praxis is the absolute “historicism”, the absolute secularisation and earthliness of thought, an absolute humanism of history. It is along this line that one must trace the thread of the new conception of the world’ (Q 11, §27; SPN 465). Its third and final appearance is in ‘Introduction to the Study http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Historicism, absolute

Historical Materialism , Volume 15 (1): 249 – Jan 1, 2007

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Brill
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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1569-206X
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10.1163/156920607X174930
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Abstract

Historicism, absolute A: at-t à r ì¢ì ya al-mu † laqa. – G: Historizismus, absoluter. F : historicisme absolu. – R: absoljutnyi istorizm. S : historicismo absoluto. C: juedui lishi zhuyi Th e expression ‘absolute historicism’ appears only three times in the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci . It appears for the first time, as a subject for further investigation, in the first note that Gramsci writes with the title ‘An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy’ (Q 8, §204). Its second appearance (perhaps the most well known quotation) is in ‘Concept of “Orthodoxy”’, as a concluding formulation to the important additional passage (note 1) which argues that ‘it has been forgotten that in the case of a very common expression one should put the accent on the first term – “historical” – and not on the second, which is of metaphysical origin. Th e philosophy of praxis is the absolute “historicism”, the absolute secularisation and earthliness of thought, an absolute humanism of history. It is along this line that one must trace the thread of the new conception of the world’ (Q 11, §27; SPN 465). Its third and final appearance is in ‘Introduction to the Study

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