Objectivity of concepts rests on a collective historical subject

Evidence

In speaking and thinking for himself, the philosopher speaks and thinks from a particular position in his society, and he does so with the material transmitted and utilized by this society. But in doing this, he speaks and thinks into a common universe of facts and possibilities. Through the various individual agents and layers of experience, through the different “projects” which guide the modes of thought from the business of everyday life to science and philosophy, the interaction between a collective subject and a common world persists and constitutes the objective validity of the universals. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 764

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marcuse’s answer to ‘historicism’: universals are objectively valid precisely because they emerge from a shared historical situation, not despite it.
• XREF: connects to: Scientific reason is the methodology of a pre-given historical reality. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 600; Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83; Marx decentered identity by lodging subjects inside un-chosen historical practices (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx decentered identity by lodging subjects inside un-chosen historical practices #corroborates (0.85)
• Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge #corroborates (0.82) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83
• A scientific framework’s presuppositions are culturally and historically conditioned #corroborates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 148
• The concept’s determinate form distinguishes subjective in-itself from submerged objectivity #expands (0.78)
• Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning #expands (0.78)
• Reading present cultural concepts only through their genealogy misses spatial and temporal context #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3027