Antonio Gramsci / by Antonio A. Santucci ; translated by Graziella Di Mauro, with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro ; preface by Eric J. Hobsbawm ; foreword by Joseph A. Buttigieg ; editor's note by Lelio La Porta.
2010
HX289.7.G73 S2413 2010 (Mapit)
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Antonio Gramsci / by Antonio A. Santucci ; translated by Graziella Di Mauro, with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro ; preface by Eric J. Hobsbawm ; foreword by Joseph A. Buttigieg ; editor's note by Lelio La Porta.
Author
Santucci, Antonio A.
Uniform Title
Antonio Gramsci, 1891-1937. English
ISBN
9781583672105 (pbk.)
1583672109 (pbk.)
9781583672112
1583672117
1583672109 (pbk.)
9781583672112
1583672117
Publication Details
New York : Monthly Review Press, c2010.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Italian.
Description
207 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
HX289.7.G73 S2413 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.53/2092 B
Summary
"Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and revolutionary. Gramscian terms such as 'civil society' and 'hegemony' are much used in everyday political discourse. Santucci warns us, however, that these words have been appropriated by both radicals and conservatives for contemporary and often self-serving ends that often have nothing to do with Gramsci's purposes in developing them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time and again in his dissection of Gramsci's writings, is absorb Gramsci's methods." -- Publisher description.
""This book is a brilliant and stimulating synthesis of Gramsci's life and thought. Students and scholars alike will find it extremely rewarding. Antonio A. Santucci brings to the study of Gramsci a fine historical sensitivity and a rigorous theoretical depth."--Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, author of Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli" "Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci was perhaps the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and revolutionary." "Gramscian terms such as "civil society" and "hegemony" are much used in everyday political discourse. Santucci warns us, however, that these words have been appropriated by both radicals and conservatives for contemporary and often self-serving ends that have nothing to do with Gramsci's purposes in developing them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time and again in his dissection of Gramsci's writings, is absorb Gramsci's methods. These can be summed up as the suspicion of "grand explanatory schemes," the unity of theory and practice, and a focus on the details of everyday life. The rigor of Santucci's examination of Gramsci's life and work matches that of the seminal thought of the master himself."--BOOK JACKET.
""This book is a brilliant and stimulating synthesis of Gramsci's life and thought. Students and scholars alike will find it extremely rewarding. Antonio A. Santucci brings to the study of Gramsci a fine historical sensitivity and a rigorous theoretical depth."--Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, author of Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli" "Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci was perhaps the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and revolutionary." "Gramscian terms such as "civil society" and "hegemony" are much used in everyday political discourse. Santucci warns us, however, that these words have been appropriated by both radicals and conservatives for contemporary and often self-serving ends that have nothing to do with Gramsci's purposes in developing them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time and again in his dissection of Gramsci's writings, is absorb Gramsci's methods. These can be summed up as the suspicion of "grand explanatory schemes," the unity of theory and practice, and a focus on the details of everyday life. The rigor of Santucci's examination of Gramsci's life and work matches that of the seminal thought of the master himself."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
"Orignally published as Antonio Gramsci, 1897-1937, by Sellerio editore, Palermo, Italy, c2005"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Di Mauro, Graziella.
Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore.
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
Buttigieg, Joseph A.
La Porta, Lelio.
Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore.
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
Buttigieg, Joseph A.
La Porta, Lelio.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The political writings
The letters from prison
The prison notebooks
end-of-century Gramsci.
The political writings
The letters from prison
The prison notebooks
end-of-century Gramsci.