Antonio Labriola

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Antonio Labriola

Antonio Labriola (born July 2, 1843 in Cassino , † February 12, 1904 in Rome ) was professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Rome. He is considered one of the first and most influential Italian Marxists . His works and ideas shaped philosophers such as Antonio Gramsci , Giovanni Gentile and Benedetto Croce , among others .

Life

Labriola was born in Cassino , the son of a teacher . During his studies at the University of Naples he was particularly influenced by Bertrando Spaventa . During this time he immediately dealt with the philosophy of Hegel and Herbart . Initially close to the political right, he adopted Marx's theory around 1890 and exchanged informative letters with Engels and Kautsky . Antonio Labriola taught philosophy at the University of Rome until his death in 1904.

theory

Labriola resolutely rejected Hegel's dialectical-idealistic conception of history. He considered three factors to be decisive for the socio-theoretical view of history:

  1. the relations of production
  2. the prevailing social order (state, law)
  3. the cultural social formation (art, science)

After studying Marx's works, he recognized historical materialism as the objective explanation for the historical dynamics of class struggles . However, Labriola did not see Marxism as a finished work, but as a tool to understand human relationships. Post-Labriola Marxism should not be dogmatic, but flexible and adaptable. This, as he calls it, "philosophy of practice" recurs in Gramsci's prison notebooks .

Works

  • Contro il ritorno a Kant , 1862,
  • La dottrina di Socrate secondo Senofonte [Xenophon], Platone ed Aristotele per Antonio Labriola. Memoria premiata dalla R. Accademia di Scienze Morali e Politiche di Napoli nel concorso dell'anno 1869 . Stamperia della Regia Università, Napoli 1871 digitized
  • The problems of a philosophy of history. Lecture given at the University of Rome on February 28, 1887 by Prof. Antonio Labriola. C. Reissner, Leipzig 1888 digitized
  • In memoria del manifesto dei comunisti , 1895
  • Dilucidazioni preliminari sul materialismo storico , 1896
  • Saggi sulla concezione materialistica della storia , 1896
  • Discorrendo di socialismo e filosofia , 1897
  • On the crisis of Marxism . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 18.1899-1900, Volume 1 (1900), Issue 3, pp. 68-80 digitized
  • Da un secolo all'altro , 1901
  • On historical materialism , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 978-3-518-06383-5 .
  • Three attempts at a materialistic conception of history , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-320-02347-8 (revised text version of the 1974 edition).

literature

  • S. Gunter: Antonio Labriola and ethics . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 18.1899-1900, 2nd volume (1900), issue 45, pp. 556-560 digitized
  • S. Gunter: Antonio Labriola and ethics (conclusion). In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 18.1899-1900, 2nd volume (1900), issue 46, pp. 586-591 digitized
  • Franz Mehring : Antonio Labriola . In: The new time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 22.1903-1904, Volume 1 (1904), Issue 19, pp. 585-588 digitized
  • In memory of the Communist Manifesto by Antonio Labriola. Introduced and translated by Franz Mehring. With a portrait of the author . Leipziger Bruchdruckerei, Leipzig 1909
  • Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Nikitic: Antonio Labriola. Biography of an Italian. Revolutionary . Translated from the Russian by Joachim Wilke. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Harry Stein: "A great seed of thought ... emanated from him." Antonio Labriola . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . 26, Jg., Berlin 1984, No. 1, pp. 102-111
  • Franco Sbarberi: Antonio Labriola's Historical Materialism . In: Gerhard Kuck (ed.): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Italy. The development of Marxism in Italy: ways, diffusion, peculiarities . Trier 1988 ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus issue 40/2) ISBN 3-926132-08-6 , pp. 45–60

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SURNAME Labriola, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Rome
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Cassino
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1904
Place of death Rome