Gramsci’s notebooks are too fragmentary for definitive claims about his project.

Evidence

In default of this, however, and given the circumstances in which the texts were written, any unequivocal assertions about the aim and status of Gramsci’s theoretical project as contained or sketched out in the Notebooks are necessarily speculative and must be recognised as such. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 16

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the hermeneutic stance required when citing Gramsci: the Notebooks are provisional, censored, and reordered, so later scholars must treat claims about ‘what Gramsci meant’ as contingent.
• QUESTION: Worth keeping in mind: which later Islamophobia-theory readings lean on a reified, pseudo-definitive ‘Gramsci’ rather than the provisional Notebooks?

Related

• The prison Notebooks’ fragmentary form shapes how his concepts must be read (similarity 0.88)
• Yet the notebooks must be read whole to resist partisan interpretation of Gramsci (similarity 0.87)
• The Prison Notebooks comprise thirty-three fragmented, partially revised notebooks. (similarity 0.84)
• Censorship forced Gramsci’s political commentary into opaque, allusive form in prison (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s major theoretical work was written in prison without library access (similarity 0.82)
• Prison censorship forced Gramsci to rewrite his notebooks using veiled language. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s leadership combined anti-sectarian party norms with mass responsiveness (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci conceived the Prison Notebooks as a project for the ages. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci disguised ideal future systems as the past to evade censors. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks were written under fascist imprisonment and smuggled out. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci wrote the Prison Notebooks during an eleven-year physical death-agony (similarity 0.79)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.78)
• Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired (similarity 0.78)
• A philosophy’s intellectual sources do not constitute its essential content (similarity 0.78)