The dialectic only functions when philosophy of praxis stands as an integral philosophy.

Evidence

But if the question is framed in this way, one can no longer understand the importance and significance of the dialectic, which is relegated from its position as a doctrine of knowledge and the very marrow of historiography and the science of politics, to the level of a sub-species of formal logic and elementary scholastics. The true fundamental function and significance of the dialectic can only be grasped if the philosophy of praxis is conceived as an integral and original philosophy which opens up a new phase of history and a new phase in the development of world thought. It does this to the extent that it goes beyond both traditional idealism and traditional materialism, philosophies which are expressions of past societies, while retaining their vital elements. If the philosophy of praxis is not considered except in subordination to another philosophy, then it is not possible to grasp the new dialectic, through which the transcending of old philosophies is effected and expressed. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1548

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines the dialectic as doctrine of knowledge and ‘marrow of historiography,’ not formal logic — a key move in Gramsci’s toolkit.
• XREF: Connects to how later Islamophobia theory uses dialectical moves against both idealist and materialist reductions (e.g. Orientalism’s critique of both).

Related

• Splitting praxis into sociology and metaphysics erases the dialectic. (similarity 0.88)
• Dialectical thinking contradicts vulgar common sense’s demand for certainties. (similarity 0.84)
• The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic. (similarity 0.84)
• Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis links theory inseparably to practice and action (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy of praxis must be understood as historical methodology. (similarity 0.83)
• A philosophy becomes historical and living only through contact with the simple (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophical elaboration must be performed within the history of philosophy (similarity 0.82)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel (similarity 0.82)
• Philosophy becomes historically true by diffusing into the popular mentality. (similarity 0.82)
• A philosophy’s intellectual sources do not constitute its essential content (similarity 0.81)
• Reducing a philosophy to a systematic sociology is naive metaphysics. (similarity 0.81)
• Past philosophical systems remain historically valid even after being superseded (similarity 0.81)
• Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc (similarity 0.81)