Philosophy of praxis transforms Hegelian immanentism into absolute historicism and humanism

Evidence

Many of the classic themes of the Althusserian intervention are resumed in and through his various uses of this term: for example, his argument that Marx’s “unity” is not the essentialist “expressive unity” to be found in Hegel, and that, therefore, Marx’s dialectic is not merely an inversion, but a theoretical advance over Hegel. … Marx’s “complex unity,” Althusser argues, is neither that in which everything perfectly expresses or corresponds to everything else; nor that in which everything is reducible to an expression of “the Economic.” It operates, instead, on the terrain of articulation. … Such conjunctures are not so much “determined” as overdetermined, i.e., they are the product of an articulation of contradictions, not directly reduced to one another. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A rational, historicist will grounded in objective necessity grounds philosophy; Immanence is the unifying concept translating German philosophy into historicist form; The philosophy of praxis can justify a non-mystical historic mission (+9 more)

Related

• Immanence is the unifying concept translating German philosophy into historicist form (similarity 0.81)
• Immanentism is progressive only when historicised and materialist (similarity 0.80)
• Althusser never fully broke with Marxism’s Hegelian teleology (similarity 0.80)
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical (similarity 0.79)
• A philosophy of praxis methodology must be a systematic philology of history and politics (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The philosophy of praxis can justify a non-mystical historic mission #expands (0.90)
• Immanentism is progressive only when historicised and materialist #corroborates (0.85)
• A philosophy of praxis methodology must be a systematic philology of history and politics #expands (0.80)
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical #corroborates (0.80)
• Althusser rejected the Hegelian ‘expressive totality’ conception of society #contradicts (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617
• Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic #qualifies (0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857
• The German Ideology contains a second humanist template reducing determination to praxis #corroborates (0.75)
• Lukács’s route to Marx passed through an inescapable Hegelian frame #complicates (0.75)
• Every philosophy is a politics embedded in its historical context #corroborates (0.75)