The 60-year-long debate on Gramsci has seldom paid attention to the relationship between his thought and the social sciences. There are in fact studies dealing with this problem, but they have generally provided a comparative analysis between thè theories of a single sociologist (Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georges Sorel) and Gramsci. No one has ever attempted a comprehensive study of Gramsci's work, highlighting the theoretical and intellectual influences that thè social sciences may have exerted on his thought. Another series of studies has instead concentrated on whether Gramsci's writings leave room for a scientific interpretation of social phenomena, and have correctly concluded that Gramsci's critique of the positivist sociology of his time does not amount to a rejection of sociology tout court, but rather of that particular sociology. This paper try to build on these studies a new analysis. It is possible to read Gramsci's writings as one of the first attempts, from a Marxist perspective, to take account of and develop the nineteenth and twentieth-century social sciences.

The Discourse of the Social Sciences and Gramscian Thought

FILIPPINI, MICHELE
2008

Abstract

The 60-year-long debate on Gramsci has seldom paid attention to the relationship between his thought and the social sciences. There are in fact studies dealing with this problem, but they have generally provided a comparative analysis between thè theories of a single sociologist (Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georges Sorel) and Gramsci. No one has ever attempted a comprehensive study of Gramsci's work, highlighting the theoretical and intellectual influences that thè social sciences may have exerted on his thought. Another series of studies has instead concentrated on whether Gramsci's writings leave room for a scientific interpretation of social phenomena, and have correctly concluded that Gramsci's critique of the positivist sociology of his time does not amount to a rejection of sociology tout court, but rather of that particular sociology. This paper try to build on these studies a new analysis. It is possible to read Gramsci's writings as one of the first attempts, from a Marxist perspective, to take account of and develop the nineteenth and twentieth-century social sciences.
2008
Michele Filippini
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