Scienza, filosofia della storia, teoria della prassi: una riflessione su Marx e il mondo storico

Both eulogists and critics described Karl Marx’s attitude to history in mutually contradictory terms: (1) as a kind of positivistic historicism, aiming to discover the laws of social evolution; (2) as an inquiry into the motive forces of change emphasizing the role of human praxis; (3) as a teleological interpretation of the overall meaning of Weltgeschichte. In fact, the author argues, the task confronting contemporary scholars is to clarify how these approaches complemented each other in Marx’s thought, paying attention, in particular, to the consistency of his notion of praxis with a high degree of inevitabilism and to his persisting acceptance of Feuerbach’s definition of man as a communitarian being.