The «Logical Instruments of Thought» and the Role of the «Individual Philosopher » in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Giuliano Guzzone
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/1
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 87-112 File size 102 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2019-001005
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The article proposes a diachronic reconstruction and philological analysis of Gramsci’s reflections on logic and methodology, with particular attention to section IV of Notebook 11. The Author maintains that the same answer found by Gramsci to the question of the logical instruments of thought - a solution based on the idea of "instrumental value" - enables him to "translate" in historicist terms the features of individual philosophy (systematicity, continuity of development, universality) and to clarify the tasks of the individual philosopher considered as a "specialized intellectual". It is also argued that this historicist "translation" of individual philosophy (or "philosophers’ philosophy") does not entail its simple and direct reduction to politics but, rather, the explanation of its peculiar "politicalness" and the redefinition of its "relative autonomy". The Author concludes with some comments on the theoretical and material links between Notebooks 10 and 11.
Keywords: Philosophy of praxis, translatability of languages, historicism, pragmatism, formal logic, methodology
Giuliano Guzzone, Gli «strumenti logici del pensiero» e la funzione del «filosofo individuale» nei Quaderni del carcere di Gramsci in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2019, pp 87-112, DOI: 10.3280/SF2019-001005