Antonio Gramsci

Towards an Intellectual Biography
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32629-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Many large Italian cities have a main thoroughfare ‘via Gramsci’, showing that the Communist leader has become part of Italy’s ‘national patrimony’, while internationally, the interest in Gramsci’s writings is second to none.
As a consequence of this fame, Gramsci’s heritage is claimed by rival groups: on the one hand by those who hope to establish his writings as ‘sacred texts’ for their own policies and on the other by those who stress any differences with Lenin in order to prove Gramsci a ‘rebel’.
A great merit of this biography is that it lifts the study of Gramsci away from the sterile debate about whether he was or was not a Leninist; another achievement of the author has been to integrate the circumstances of Gramsci’s life – the childhood in Sardinia, the politics of the left in the 1920s, the years of exile and prison – with his developing political and philosophical ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Alistair

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface for the New Edition. ix
Acknowledgements. xxiv

Foreword. xxv
Norberto Bobbio

Introduction. 1
1 A Country Boy. 6
2 Making the Country Boy an Italian. 56
3 A Philosophy of Praxis. 104
4 ‘… an International Figure?’. 172
5 A Revolutionary Theory. 250

Bibliography. 293
Index. 306

Über Autor(innen)

Alastair Davidson, Ph.D. (1966), Australian National University, is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Monash University. He has spent much of his life in Italy and explored the Sardinian background in some detail, as well as researched at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. He is the author of twenty books and hundreds of articles including The Theory and Practice of Italian Communism (Merlin Press, 1982); with Steve Wright eds., ‘Never Give In’ The Italian Resistance and Politics (Peter Lang, 1998); The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle for Universal Human Rights (Springer, 2012); Migration in the Age of Genocide: Law, Forgiveness and Revenge (Springer, 2015).