A theory’s influence penetrates rivals diffusely through implicit absorption, not direct adoption.

Evidence

But the most difficult and delicate research is that into implicit and unacknowledged absorption, which has taken place precisely because the philosophy of praxis has been a moment of modern culture, a diffuse atmosphere, which has modified old ways of thinking through actions and reactions which are neither apparent nor immediate. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1392

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of implicit/unacknowledged absorption of an intellectual movement — a mechanism for how ideas propagate that the reader can carry into Islamophobia readings where Weber/Marx penetrate ‘common sense’ without being named.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s own hegemony/common-sense concept in later selections, and to how critical-theory vocabulary (from Marx, Foucault) permeates Islamophobia scholarship implicitly.

Related

• Common sense merits only a limited empirical trust, not philosophical authority. (similarity 0.80)
• Popular masses accept new ideas only as heterogeneous combinations, not pure forms (similarity 0.79)