Gramsci conceived the Prison Notebooks as a project for the ages.

Evidence

Soon after his arrest he wrote to his sister-in-law Tatiana (19 March 1927: LC. pp. 57-60) about a project of writing something “für ewig” (for ever), something which would also serve to absorb him and “give a focus to [his] inner life”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 15

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s ‘für ewig’ ambition connects to the reader’s broader interest in how canonical theory texts construct their own timelessness.

Related

• Gramsci wrote the Prison Notebooks during an eleven-year physical death-agony (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci’s major theoretical work was written in prison without library access (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s notebooks are too fragmentary for definitive claims about his project. (similarity 0.80)
• The Prison Notebooks comprise thirty-three fragmented, partially revised notebooks. (similarity 0.80)
• The prison Notebooks’ fragmentary form shapes how his concepts must be read (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci disguised ideal future systems as the past to evade censors. (similarity 0.79)
• The prison notebooks were a deliberate strategy against political self-abandonment (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci was held in near-total isolation and surveillance in Milan for over a year (similarity 0.79)