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Maurizio Lichrner has explained that far from aiming at perfection, Gramsci's notion of translation is rich with complications, theoretical knots, and limits that cannot be transcended. 50 In Quaderno 7, Gramsci explicitly states that the limits of translation are reached in attempting to translate traditional philosophy into historical materialism. Such translation is 'impossible,' he states. 52 When Gramsci rewrites the passage in Quaderno 10, more substantially than many other rewritten sections, he omits the assertion that such translation is impossible.

It also places beyond abstract ions of objectivism whether in its Neogram marian or Saussur and Engels's From this insight, Gramsci and Volosinov further develop Marx 'practical connotion that consciousness is not 'pure consciousness' but rather 65 coupled with sciousness,' which is identified with language. '66 of language These tangenti al remarks of Marx and Engels on the relationship were writov Volosin to consciousness had not been publishe d when Gramsc i and ive, we perspect this From ing, yet they are precisely what both aim to develop.

It is this issue that chapter 2 takes up. ous grammar, but its implications and its relationship to more recent debates around structuralism and poststructuralism will become more apparent, and cast Gramsci in a more semiotic light. Yet all these comparisons raise a number of potential problems and confusions for Gramsci's position. " How does this challenge my previous chapter's argument that Gramsci sees the possibility of rejecting the method by which Italian was standardized - a regressive form of hegemony - while offering a better, Marxist method for creating a national unified language - the model of a laudable hegemony?