Modern individualism emerged from the Renaissance-Reformation shift to immanentism
Evidence
On the question of so-called “individualism”, that is the attitude that every historical period has adopted towards the position of the individual in the world and in historical life: what is today called “individualism” had its origins in the cultural revolution that came after the Middle Ages (Renaissance and Reformation) and indicates a specific position adopted towards the problem of divinity and therefore of the Church; it is the passage from transcendental thought to immanentism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1286
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Gramsci relativizes individualism as a historical attitude tied to a specific epoch, not a universal given.
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