Prison Notebooks
«Altogether a tremendous achievement... This volume provides us with an immediate sense of the scale and diversity of Gramsci's project. -- Richard Bellamy Times Literary Supplement An impressive and welcome commencement to the translation of one of the great intellectual legacies of the twentieth century...in Gramsci, Marxism acquires the founder of a proletarian intellectual tradition that is likely to continue as long as society has use for democracy. -- William Hartley Italian Quarterly»
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Les mer
Gramsci also touches on the Renaissance and Reformation, language and linguistics, military and diplomatic history, and Japanese and Chinese culture. Notebook 4 features an innovative reading of canto 10 from Dante's Inferno and a philosophical analysis of materialism and idealism. It also includes the first draft of Gramsci's famous observations on the history and role of intellectuals in society.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231105927
- Utgivelsesår
- 1996
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«Altogether a tremendous achievement... This volume provides us with an immediate sense of the scale and diversity of Gramsci's project. -- Richard Bellamy Times Literary Supplement An impressive and welcome commencement to the translation of one of the great intellectual legacies of the twentieth century...in Gramsci, Marxism acquires the founder of a proletarian intellectual tradition that is likely to continue as long as society has use for democracy. -- William Hartley Italian Quarterly»