ABSTRACT
The realisation that even emancipation generates its own myths continues to pose an unexpected challenge to all the more intransigent “Enlightenment” positions that drive a solid wedge between reason and non-reason and advocate its introduction into the political sphere. From the social function point of view, the unity of faith between theory and praxis is an analogue of religious experience. Gramsci says that the speculative/ religious response is a reaction, evidently to reinforce an order that offers no alternatives but is eroded from within. According to Gramsci, “the parties are the architects of the new integral and totalitarian intellectuals”. Gramsci asks whether speculation may be regarded as the “proper” form of any philosophical thought in general or a historical product related to the division of society.
