"Philosophy of praxis" is the concept used since 1932 by Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks (notebooks 10 and 11) as a substitute of "Marxism". It is quite possible that one among the reasons for this conceptual choice was the circumspection of the prisoner Gramsci vis-à-vis the censor. However, as this article tries to show, all the conditions which make that substitution possible are already present in the period 1929-1932. Throughoutthat period, Gramsci elaborates an original reconsideration of Marxism, culminating in a proposal that he expressly announces as "philosophy of praxis". The concept draws explicitly on the work of Antonio Labriola and is defined, in accordance with Labriola, as denoting the core of Marxist philosophy. Specifically, Gramsci argues that Marxist philosophy is born outof historical materialism, rather than other philosophical positions such as Idealism and Materialism. This article describes the genesis of the philosophy of praxis by means of a close reading of the Notebooks. Contrary to received wisdom, the article argues that this concept - albeit in a sketchy and rather vague way - is already present in 1930, with the subsequent two years beingdedicated to defining it in every detail.
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