Separating philosophy from history and politics reduces it to metaphysics

Evidence

The source of all the errors of the Manual, and of its author (who does not seem to have changed his position, even after the great debate which apparently, or so it would appear from the text presented at the London Congress, resulted in his repudiating the book), consists precisely in this pretension to divide the philosophy of praxis into two parts: a “sociology” and a systematic philosophy. Separated from the theory of history and politics philosophy cannot be other than metaphysics, whereas the great conquest in the history of modern thought, represented by the philosophy of praxis, is precisely the concrete historicisation of philosophy and its identification with history. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1551

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘philosophy of praxis’ as the historicisation of philosophy — philosophy inseparable from concrete history and politics.
• XREF: The insistence that theory cannot be detached from history and politics is the methodological spine later Cultural Studies (Hall) and postcolonial Islamophobia critique inherit. — connects to: Reducing philosophy to pure analysis rejects its own generative history; Every philosophy is a politics embedded in its historical context; Metaphysics is any system presented as extra-historical abstract truth — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1552 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Reducing philosophy to pure analysis rejects its own generative history #corroborates (0.92)
• Metaphysics is any system presented as extra-historical abstract truth #expands (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1552
• Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc #corroborates (0.88) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1240
• Every philosophy is a politics embedded in its historical context #corroborates (0.85)
• Splitting praxis into sociology and metaphysics erases the dialectic. #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1546
• Philosophical truths are valid only as expressions of a specific historical praxis #corroborates (0.85)