Epistemological universality claims are indexed to the thinker’s class position.

Evidence

Lukács’ originality is to have returned this abstract philosophical problem to its concrete situation in social reality itself, and to have posed the question of the relationship between universality on the epistemological level and the class affiliation of the individual thinker himself. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 376

Categorization

• XREF: This is the heart of Lukács’s mediation between epistemology and class—the move Jameson later extends to Sartre and Adorno in the same book. — connects to: All knowledge is positional, shaped by the thinker’s formation; One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see; Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the core dialectical procedure: taking an abstract philosophical category (universality of the knower) and grounding it in concrete social-historical class reality.

Broader Connections

• All knowledge is positional, shaped by the thinker’s formation #expands (0.88)
• One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see #expands (0.85)
• Readings that efface subjectivity to reach universality are actually particular and arbitrary #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1230
• Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details #qualifies (0.72)