A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility

Evidence

Luigi Ornato (1787-1842), an obscure Piedmontese thinker, left no published work except a vulgarisation of Marcus Aurelius but enjoyed a high reputation, e.g. with Gioberti. Gobetti saluted him in the Manifesto for the first number of La Rivoluzione Liberate as the “philosopher of the risings of 1821”, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2063 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An obscure thinker could wield outsized intellectual influence despite publishing almost nothing — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2063; Husserl framed scholarly responsibility as answerability to oneself. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 322; Book authorship is ultimately a solitary act of individual responsibility. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1672

Related

• An obscure thinker could wield outsized intellectual influence despite publishing almost nothing (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• An obscure thinker could wield outsized intellectual influence despite publishing almost nothing #contradicts (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2063