The text reconstructs Mario Dal Pra’s studies carried out on the philosophy of Karl Marx from the mid-1950s to the threshold of the 1960s. It insists on the relationship existing between the interpretation of historical materialism and the theoretical debates on historiography. During these debates, Dal Pra came very close to Giulio Preti’s position, because the latter advanced a reading of historical materialism that was epistemological rather than political or moral and, as such, capable of solving the problems of philosophical historiography. The results achieved by Preti convinced Dal Pra and caused him to reconsider his previous position. Once re-connected in an epistemological key to reflections on historiography, Marx’s philosophy opened the way to critical historicism. In the following years (1960-68), ‘praxis’ and ‘materialistic epistemology’ would be rebalanced through the investigation of dialectics in the Marxian works written before Capital.

Un sodalizio inquieto. Mario Dal Pra e Giulio Preti lettori di Marx

Bondì Davide
2024-01-01

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The text reconstructs Mario Dal Pra’s studies carried out on the philosophy of Karl Marx from the mid-1950s to the threshold of the 1960s. It insists on the relationship existing between the interpretation of historical materialism and the theoretical debates on historiography. During these debates, Dal Pra came very close to Giulio Preti’s position, because the latter advanced a reading of historical materialism that was epistemological rather than political or moral and, as such, capable of solving the problems of philosophical historiography. The results achieved by Preti convinced Dal Pra and caused him to reconsider his previous position. Once re-connected in an epistemological key to reflections on historiography, Marx’s philosophy opened the way to critical historicism. In the following years (1960-68), ‘praxis’ and ‘materialistic epistemology’ would be rebalanced through the investigation of dialectics in the Marxian works written before Capital.
2024
praxis, historical materialism, historiography, Giulio Preti, Eugenio Garin
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