ABSTRACT
Is a philosophical movement properly so called when it is devoted to creating a specialized culture among restricted intellectual groups, or rather when, and only when, in the process of elaborating a form of thought superior to “common sense” and coherent on a scientific plane, it never forgets to remain in contact with the “simple” and indeed finds in this contact the source of the problems it sets out to study and to resolve? Only by this contact does a philosophy become “historical,” purify itself of intellectualistic elements of an individual character and become “life.” (Gramsci, 1971)
