Gramsci: Pre-Prison Writings / Edition 1

by Antonio Gramsci, Richard Bellamy, Virginia Cox

Overview

This collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, newly translated and including a number of pieces not previously available in English, covers the whole gamut of his journalistic activity, from general cultural criticism to commentaries on local, national and international events. It will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the history of political, social and cultural thought in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521423076
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/20/1994
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	898,214
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

1. On Marx; 2. The new order; 3. Socialism and fascism; 4. The construction of the Italian Communist Party.

Editorial Reviews

"[T]he first reasonably representative collection of his early political and cultural journalism available in English....Gramsci is revealed as a brilliant journalist first and foremost, and secondly as a Communist activist...." Martin Clark, Times Literary Supplement

"...will be a useful aid to Gramsci scholarship." Ethics

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