ON THE EMERGENCE OF THE EXPRESSION "PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS"

While omnipresent i n Notebooks 10 and 11, the concept appears only

sporadically in the earlier ones. In the first six notebooks the expression is used

twice, each time in the titles of other works cited.7 In the sense of a developing

self-understanding, we meet with "philosophy of praxis" for the first time in

Notebook 7 (1930-31). In this case we have to bear in mind that Gramsci was

using the first part of the notebook, from page 2 to page 34a, for translations, and

that the first of the translated texts is Marx's Theses on Feuerbach in Engels's

version.8