Ginzburg, Andrea
Gramsci, Sraffa and Historical Causality
This contribution intends to focused on three aspects. The first concerns the placement of Gramsci's and Sraffa's heterodoxy within the «two Marxisms debate». It will be argued that this heterodoxy must be situated within the more general reaction, starting at the end of the nineteenth century, to the mechanistic reductionism, factual and methodological, applied to social systems deriving from classical mechanics. The cultural battle against reductionism focuses on the concept of the historical causality. In this debate, the Hegelian dialectics, which emerged along the lines of an interpretations of Marx's conceptions, was enrolled at that time as a tool to escape from several forms of determinism (technological, institutional, social etc.). The second aspect concerns the identification of areas of overlap in the research of Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein. It is argued that their reflections had one point, as a common basis, the driving-ideas of the 'philosophy of praxis', i.e. the attempt, based on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach, to overcome both idealism and metaphysical (or naturalistic) materialism. The third aspect is related to an implication of the importance assigned to the language of dialectics, namely the possibility of taking into account that social practices and activities give rise to bifurcations, non-linear reactions and feedback leading to new structures tendencies. It is argued that modern systems and complexity theory have inherited some of the tasks that Labriola and Gramsci (and, it is suggested, Sraffa) attributed to dialectics in the interpretation of historical phenomena.
| Lingua | eng |
| Nomi |
[author] Ginzburg, Andrea |
| Soggetti |
Sraffa, Piero
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Marxismo
Sraffa, Piero
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Marxism |
