Gramsci’s prison writings shaped Althusser’s non-reductionist Marxism

Evidence

Gramsci’s work is more fragmentary (much of it written in prison, under the eyes of the censor, in one of Mussolini’s jails), far less “theorized” than that of Althusser. Gramsci has been formative for the development of Althusser’s problematic: though, since in certain respects Gramsci remained a “historicist,” the relationship between Althusser and Gramsci is a complex one. In a recent review of this relationship, we have expressed it in terms of Gramsci providing the “limit case” of historicity for Marxist structuralism (Hall et al. 1977). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 625

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s influence across post-Marxist theory - grounds prior readings of hegemony as non-reductionist concept. — connects to: Hall’s Marxism fused Althusser read through Gramsci into a non-reductionist framework — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 899; Prison conditions shaped the form Gramsci’s theoretical work took — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 229; Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus derives from Gramsci’s consent apparatuses (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hall’s Marxism fused Althusser read through Gramsci into a non-reductionist framework — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 899; Prison conditions shaped the form Gramsci’s theoretical work took — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 229; Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus derives from Gramsci’s consent apparatuses (+4 more)