Gramsci’s concepts stay embedded in conjunctures rather than aiming at theoretical purity.

Evidence

Gramsci’s work remains, of course, theoretically underdeveloped: the concepts are often in what Althussereans would call their “practical” state: they are hardly ever “pure”—never thoroughly or radically dismembered from their location within specific conjunctures. But if Lenin was correct to argue that what a Marxist analysis pointed to as its proper conclusion was the “concrete analysis of a concrete situation”—in other words, precisely, the analysis of conjunctures—then it is Lenin himself, first, and Gramsci immediately behind who—in so far as such an analysis embraces the superstructures—lead the way. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 529

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: This defense of conjunctural, impure concepts maps directly onto the anti-reductionist turn the reader is tracking from Gramsci through Althusser to Hall’s own method.

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