For a materialist understanding of culture critique of the formal gnosiology of social objectivations

Abstract

As a subject of broad debate, culture has been understood as a term of extremely broad semantic load and capable of interpretation and intersubjective consensus. For research areas that take more direct ownership of this quarrel, such as sociology and anthropology, culture gains different meanings of agglutination ranging from the functional description of institutions, practices and goods to its extension to the meaning of customs proper to human behavior. However, from a direct reading of Marxian textuality and an understanding of his method of successive approximations to the objectivations of the social world, a materialist understanding of culture and its objects is possible that transcends a logical-formal gnosiology towards historical processuality.