Prison Notebooks: Volumes 1, 2 & 3

by Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Callari (With)

Overview

Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition of Gramsci's work, Quaderni del Carcere, this comprehensive translation presents the intellectual as he ought to be read and understood, with critical notes that clarify Gramsci's history, culture, and sources; an index of names; and a contextualization of the thinker's ideas against his earlier writings and letters. This set includes notebooks 1 through 8 with all attendant notes and materials and is an indispensible resource for scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231157551
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/03/2011
Series:	European Perspectives
Pages:	2032
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 4.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an Italian Marxist theorist, one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party, and founder of the official party newspaper, l’Unita. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Gramsci’s thirty-three prison notebooks, which contain brilliant reflections on a vast range of subjects, are foundational for an array of disciplines and schools of thought.

Joseph A. Buttigieg (1947–2019) was professor emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He was the author and editor of a number of books, including A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective, The Legacy of Antonio Gramsci, Criticism Without Boundaries, Gramsci and Education, European Christian Democracy, and most notably the complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (Columbia, 1992–2007). He was also founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Prison Notebooks
Notebook 1 (1929-1930): First Notebook
Notebook 2 (1929-1933): Miscellaneous I
Notes
Notebook 1: Description of the Manuscript
Notes to the text
Notebook 2: Description of the Manuscript
Notes to the text
Illustrations

What People are Saying About This

Terry Eagleton

A poignant record of [Gramsci's] thoughts from a Fascist prison cell, adding a human touch to a key political figure.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Until Joseph Buttigieg's meticulous translation and critical attention to Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, this invaluable text, a testimony to the most emancipatory thinking of our time, was available to the leadership in English in only an artificially contrived form. Now Buttigieg's monumental and magesterial work is available in paperback. Scholars, teachers, students, activists, general readers -- rejoice!

Edward W. Said

This is the first time ever that Gramsci's extraordinary Prison Notebooks are available in English as he wrote them in italian, in their fragemntary brilliance and their disconcertingly restless, unorthodox probity. Joseph Buttigieg's work is a monument of scholarship and of supple, deeply sensitive translation. When his work is completed in subsequent volumes a remarkable monument of human courage and intellectual resourcefulness will stand forth as never before.

Fredric Jameson

Prison Notebooks is one of the fundamental texts of modern thought. Politics, cultural studies, philosophy, history, the dialectic—everything is here. Buttigieg's translation is a superb achievement."

Editorial Reviews

The existence of an affordable, complete, critical edition of the prison notebooks will represent a major scholarly and political achievement, the consummation of generations of social labor by friends and scholars of Gramsci.

Marx and Philosophy Review of Books - Joel Wainwright

The existence of an affordable, complete, critical edition of the prison notebooks will represent a major scholarly and political achievement, the consummation of generations of social labor by friends and scholars of Gramsci.

— Joel Wainwright

Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

Altogether a tremendous achievement . . . . This volume provides us with an immediate sense of the scale and diversity of Gramsci's project.

Times Literary Supplement