Marksistinė Filosofijos Istoriografija Lietuvoje: Vertikalusis Redukcionizmas
Marxist Historiography of Philosophy in Lithuania: Vertical Reductionism

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Marxist methodology of historiography of philosophy in Lithuania. This methodology represented the mechanicistic strategy of interpretation, which treats the subject of inquiry as a regular product of some non-theoretic reality. The vertical reductionism regards philosophy as the product of social relations and denies its self-contained value. It approaches philosophy as ideology and criticizes it as such. It transforms philosophical problems into social problems, formulates them in Marxist way, and finally reduces them to ideology. It ignores that some philosophical problems have nothing in common with social questions.

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