Historical materialism refutes empiricism’s compartmentalizing thought, not German idealism’s speculative totalizing

Evidence

TOWARDS DIALECTICAL CRITICISM in its various forms and guises, consists in separating reality matism meet, for both-come to stare at their own concepts into airtight compartments, carefully distinguishing the poas though they were things; yet at the other end of the phillitical from the economic, the legal from the political, the osophical spectrum. Hegel’s ingenious: and sophisticated sociological from the historical, so that the full implications solution to the dilemma is no less wrong, positing in Absoof any given problem can never come into view; and in lute Spirit, as we have seen, a term in which somehow unilimiting all statements to the discrete and the immediately versality and the existence of the individual consciousness verifiable, in order to rule out any speculative and are reconciled. It is the psychological function of the matotalizing thought which might lead to a vision of social terialistic doctrine to rebuke such illusions, in its hygienic life as a whole. I might add that when in the opening chapdowngrading of the pretensions of spirit as such and of the ter of the Anti-Duehring Engels attacks “metaphysical” individual mind’s claim to universality, in its regrounding thinking, it is precisely empiricist thought of the tradition of our beings and our bodies in the physical and socioof Bacon and Locke, rather than the school of German historical universe. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 193

Categorization

• DEFINE: Jameson clarifies that Marxism’s genuine adversary is Anglo-American empiricism, sharply distinguishing the kind of ‘idealism’ materialism is meant to refute.
• XREF: Anticipates Jameson’s chapter-long argument that dialectical criticism recuperates speculative totality against Anglo-American empiricism; aligns with his debt to Adorno’s negative dialectics. — connects to: Historical materialism inherits and historicizes idealism’s claim that reality is a human creation — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1570; Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical; Positivist empiricism can be as anti-historical as speculative idealism — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1555 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Historical materialism superseded subjectivist philosophy by posing its questions historicist terms #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1570
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical #corroborates (0.82)
• Positivist empiricism can be as anti-historical as speculative idealism #qualifies (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1555
• Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism #expands (0.80)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism #corroborates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881
• Materialism opposes religion while realism opposes speculation and transcendence #qualifies (0.75)