Mediation by work yields a dialectical world-conception free of magic.

Evidence

The discovery that the relations between the social and natural orders are mediated by work, by man’s theoretical and practical activity, creates the first elements of an intuition of the world free from all magic and superstition. It provides a basis for the subsequent development of an historical, dialectical conception of the world, which understands movement and change, which appreciates the sum of effort and sacrifice which the present has cost the past and which the future is costing the present, and which conceives the contemporary world as a synthesi s of the past, of all past generations, which projects itself into the future. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 351

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the historicist, dialectical conception of the world: present as synthesis of past generations projected into the future.
• XREF: This historicist conception is the backbone of the toolkit’s genealogical approach (Foucault’s genealogy and Gramscian historicity both fight static essentialism of the Other). — connects to: Magic is defined as influence acting without objective mediation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 366