History is neither purely objective nor purely subjective, being pervaded by a dialectical anti-dialectic
Evidence
Some day I will undertake to describe that strange reality which is History, and which is neither completely objective nor completely subjective, in which the dialectic is resisted, pervaded and corroded by a kind of anti-dialectic, itself however still dialectical in character. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 420
Categorization
- DEFINE: Jameson’s (borrowing from Sartre) notion of anti-dialectic inside dialectic — a counter-concept to naïve totalization, key to the Frankfurt lineage.
- DEEPTHINKING: The idea that resistance to the dialectic is itself dialectical in character is a dense, nuanced knot — a totalizing claim that resists one-sentence summary.
- XREF: connects to: Historical necessity is a feeling produced by dialectical understanding, not an ontological determinism. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 709; Horkheimer treated the dialectic of history as a hypothesis, not a structural plan — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 487; The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1548 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc
#corroborates(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1240 - Historical necessity is a feeling produced by dialectical understanding, not an ontological determinism.
#expands(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 709 - Horkheimer treated the dialectic of history as a hypothesis, not a structural plan
#exemplifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 487 - The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic.
#expands(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1548 - Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other
#complicates(0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 84