Writing the history of absorbed concepts means writing the full history of modern culture

Evidence

The identification of the concepts which the philosophy of praxis has “yielded up” to traditional philosophies, and thanks to which these latter have enjoyed a brief moment of rejuvenation, must be made with great critical caution, and it means no more nor less than writing the history of modern culture since the activity of its founders [Marx and Engels]. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1391

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci defines the intellectual method for tracing how Marx’s thought was absorbed by other philosophies: a critical caution against superficial resemblances.