Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc

Evidence

The philosophy of an historical epoch is, therefore, nothing other than the “history” of that epoch itself, nothing other than the mass of variations that the leading group has succeeded in imposing on preceding reality. History and philosophy are in this sense indivisible: they form a bloc. But the philosophical elements proper can be “distinguished”, on all their various levels: as philosophers’ philosophy and the conceptions of the leading groups (philosophical culture) and as the religions of the great masses. And it can be seen how, at each of these levels, we are dealing with different forms of ideological “combination”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1240

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the philosophical bloc concept — philosophy = history = the leading group’s imposed variations — and the layered notion of ideological combinations.
• XREF: This layered ‘ideological combination’ model maps directly onto how racialized/ideological common sense operates in the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: The science-philosophy split reflects differing historical projects, not progress — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 680; All philosophical thought, however abstract, is constituted from historical material — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 755; History is neither purely objective nor purely subjective, being pervaded by a dialectical anti-dialectic — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 420 (+1 more)