Un lettore poco inconsapevole : quando Bourdieu (non) parlava di Gramsci

Not only Bourdieu's references to Gramsci are scant, but the relevance attributed to them appears negligible overall: in the majority of the rare occasions where he shows the willingness to explicitly demonstrate his knowledge of Gramsci through citations, this is done in a hurried, vague, and instrumental manner. However, this does not imply that Bourdieu's posture and positions regarding Gramsci's thought do not find expression within his own texts; on the contrary, they emerge precisely from reticence, allusions, and dissimulations. From here, one can even explore a closeness underlying an apparent and declared detachment, to reflect on a disinterest that is in fact interested. The analysis thus relies on a contrarian reading of the direct and explicit occurrences of Gramsci traceable in Bourdieu's texts, highlighting the space of their possible sociological implications. [Publisher's text]