Proletarian thought resolves Kantian antinomies that bourgeois philosophy could not.

Evidence

What Lukács must show is that proletarian thought has precisely the capacity for resolving antinomies which middle-class thinking by its very nature was unable to deal with. He must show how something in the structure of proletarian thought itself permits access to the totality or reality, to that totalizing knowledge which was the stumbling block of classical bourgeois philosophy … Something must be found in the very existential situation of the proletarian himself which corresponds, as a concrete reality, to that union of subject and object, of knower and known, which Hegel posited as a solution to the Kantian problem of the thing-in-itself in the domain of pure thought. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 379

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows Jameson translating the abstract Hegelian subject-object unity into Lukács’s concrete existential ground of the worker’s situation — the method of mediation itself.
• XREF: This is the core of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness the reader needs to trace Jameson’s lineage on totality vs. the Kantian thing-in-itself. — connects to: Hegel’s dialectic aimed to repair Kant’s split between mind and world.; The Kantian ego is a product of material economic conditions, not a transcendental given — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 79

Broader Connections

• The Kantian ego is a product of material economic conditions, not a transcendental given #corroborates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 79
• Hegel’s dialectic aimed to repair Kant’s split between mind and world. #corroborates (0.70)