Posthumously published works must be read provisionally, not as definitive

Evidence

This preliminary work is needed to make any further research possible. A distinction should further be made within the work of the thinker under consideration between those works which he has carried through to the end and published himself or those which remain unpublished, because incomplete, and those which were published by a friend or disciple, but not without revisions, re-writings, cuts, etc., or in other words not without the active intervention of a publisher or editor. It is clear that the content of posthumous works has to be taken with great discretion and caution, because it cannot be considered definitive but only as material still being elaborated and still provisional. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1365

Categorization

• XREF: Directly applies to how one should read Gramsci’s own Prison Notebooks — posthumously assembled, edited, and provisional; this methodological warning is self-reflexive.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did editorial interventions shape the received Gramsci text, and what gets lost or distorted in the ‘definitive’ editions?