Experimental science is the most universalized form of subjectivity

Evidence

Up to now experimental science has provided the terrain on which a cultural unity of this kind has reached its furthest extension. This has been the element of knowledge that has contributed most to unifying the “spirit” and making it more universal. It is the most objectivised and concretely universalised subjectivity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1584

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how ‘scientific’ racism and secular universal claims in later Islamophobia debates borrow science’s prestige for objectivity. — connects to: Science presents itself as universal and culture-free but is itself a cultural discourse — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 545; Modern science’s domination of nature expresses a universally valid epistemic attitude. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 605