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 revitalisation 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”.
A "história integral" desde a perspectiva dos subalternos: contribuição para uma teoria marxista da história
FROSINI, FABIO
2013
Abstract
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 revitalisation 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”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
