De Lutiis, Ludovico
Dizionario gramsciano / Gramscian Dictionary: Philology
This is a translation into English of the Dizionario gramsciano entry "Philology" by Ludovico De Lutiis.
Philology, the "methodological expression of the importance of particular facts", underlies Gramsci's
writings in the Notebooks and lies at the centre of various reflections; it is indispensable for
reconstructing an author's thought and, indeed, the past. Gramsci drew inspiration for his own antipositivist approach, con-trasted to that of Bukharin, in part from Ernst Bernheim's outline of historical
method . Reading a text or situation, and knowing how not to read too much into it (a refusal to
"importune" [sollecitare] the text), is essential to objective, dispassionate understanding. In these terms
the interpretation of the present is "living philology", where "human nature is the totality of historically
determined social relations". This "philology of history and politics" form part of Gramsci's critique of
determinist Marxism. Through the interpretation of a situation by a "collective organism", i.e. through
"living philology", the essential link is formed "between great mass, party and leading group" in order to
"move together as collective-man'".
pdf available at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1179&context=gramsci
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[autore] De Lutiis, Ludovico |
| Subjects |
Filologia
philology
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