Passages
The title of this entry. “An observation linked to the preceding note. The Lombroso case. From the little bone of a mouse sometimes a sea serpent was reconstructed”
Curvier's Little Bone
Worldview
Conception of the World
The Quaderno whose main theme is explaining and analyzing historical materialism
IV
Gramsci’s term for communism
Theory of Praxis
In the pre-prison letter, this person gets the most sass from Gramsci, especially concerning finances
Gramsci's father, Francesco
In the passage that begins “Oh! The people!” what is Gramsci satirizing?
The newspapers whose titles claim to be about the Italian people, but who have lost touch with who the people actually are
A phrase used alongside “philistine,” “popular,” “widespread,” and “masses”
Common Sense
This quaderno opens up focusing on economic exchanges within and between primarily Western countries
II
The title of the “Machiavellian” book Gramsci would have liked to have published
The Modern Prince
Often used as the organizing title for many of Gramsci’s passages, this epithet categorizes Jesuitical literature
Father Bresciany's Progeny
Gramsci closes an entry with the following: "The devil must have thrown a monkey wrench into the works. Well, learn to have the devil with the monkey wrench on your side" (VIII.159.325). What is he discussing in this entry?
The tendency to belittle the enemy; the weakness of the belittler; who "should" be attacked (the leader or the followers); the fight for reality; history written from the losing perspective.
Often mentioned in tandem by Gramsci, these dialectical terms of submission attempt to explain the basis of social organization
Consensus and Coercion
Which two notebooks begin not with passages but with a numerically ordered list of topics?
I & VIII
The term used to describe the control of one group over another through an ideological dominance associated not with the creators of that logic but with a “natural” understanding of the world and social relations in a particular culture
Hegemony
This person led a movement whose motto was “Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!” and why did Gramsci criticize him
Filippo Tommasso Marinetti; one must have a culture to replace the one destroyed otherwise nothing will change
Gramsci begins a passage with this question: “When can it be said of a philosophy that it is historically important?” What is his answer?
“The extent to which it reacts back is precisely the measure of its” importance (VII.45.194) → philosophy has no effect if it is abstract, we can see the influence when we see the products of its theory → the bigger the reaction, the larger its importance (historical materialism) → philosophy as a social force)
This intellectual consistently stops too short in his analysis and although he believes he is fighting for freedom from fascism, his lack of in-depth analysis often ends up supporting it
Croce
“In order to have a good understanding of the church in the modern world, one must realize that it is prepared to struggle only to defend its particular corporate freedoms” is a passage from this Quaderno
V
The phrase associated with people who merely take “the physical (chemical, mechanical, etc) properties of matter into account, of course, but only insofar as they become an “economic” factor of production”
Vulgar Marxism
Gramsci says about this person: “has something of the seer and the believer in him”
Benito Mussolini
In a letter on March 19th, 1927, Gramsci writes about four potential fur ewig topics. Name three of them.
Italian Intellectuals; Comparative Linguistics; Pirandello and the transformation of theatre; the Serial Novel and Popular Literature
For Gramsci, education, encyclopedias, periodicals, the popular manual, the Modern Prince, etc. should all aim to create this for the working class
Class Consciousness
Two numbers are needed: (1) the Quaderno containing a separate section on Dante (2) the Canto Gramsci discusses in that Quaderno
Quad IV
Canto X
Explain historical materialism
“Historical materialism takes the physical (chemical, mechanical, etc) properties of matter into account, of course, but only insofar as they become an “economic” factor of production. The issue, then, is not matter as such but how it is socially and historically organized for production, as a human relation. Historical materialism does not study a machine in order to establish the physical-chemical-mechanical structure of its natural components; it studies it as an object of production and property, as the crystallization of social relations that itself coincides with a particular social period” (IV. 25. 164)
This figure becomes an “ism” and though frequently discussed in the first few quadernos, slowly disappears in the latter
Achille Loria ("Lorianism")