Gramsci’s philology means studying the Certain as distinct from the True

Evidence

The second process we see taking shape at the time of the Revolution is the way in which this tactic is deployed in three directions which correspond to three different battles and produce three rather different tactics: One is centered on nationalities, and is therefore essentially in continuity with the phenomena of language and, therefore, philology; the second centers on social classes, views economic domination as the wee central phenomenon, and is therefore closely related to political economy; the third direction, finally, 1s centered on neither nationalities nor classes, but upon race, and views biological specification and selection as the central phenomenon; there is, then, a continuity between this historical discourse and the biological problematic. Philology, political economy, biology. Language, labor, life. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Historical discourse divides into philology, political economy, and biology — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205

Related

• Historical discourse divides into philology, political economy, and biology (similarity 0.90)
• A philosophy of praxis methodology must be a systematic philology of history and politics (similarity 0.83)
• Philology pursues the certain, distinct from philosophy’s pursuit of the true (similarity 0.82)
• Philosophy becomes historically true by diffusing into the popular mentality. (similarity 0.81)
• Separating philosophy from history and politics reduces it to metaphysics (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Historical discourse divides into philology, political economy, and biology #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205