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Struggle for objectivity

In: Political Creativity

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Gramsci had a high regard for sciences as a struggle for objectivity. Their success unites mankind as universal subjectivity. But nothing escapes transformation. Science is also a historical category, so that its results are never final. Gramsci envisions a hierarchy of scientific complexity for particular sciences, which situate in different levels of abstraction. Abstraction must not be confused with generalization. Discovery is the prime quality of science for Gramsci. He understood discovery to be based on the ability to combine things inventively and to choose the fruitful ones for closer analysis. His Quaderni offer many examples of combinatorial analysis. Abduction is the first step in discovery. It combines and mediates deduction and induction. A basic feature of Gramsci’s scholarly thinking was its philological rigour (in neolinguistics). It refined his abductive abilities in capturing the triggers of social and political transformation. In his reasoning Gramsci moves between abstraction and concreteness in a kind of dynamic mix.

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  • ., 2024. "Struggle for objectivity," Chapters, in: Political Creativity, chapter 4, pages 90-124, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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