Antonio Gramsci - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.

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11 Oct 2006, 17:03

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Antonio Gramsci (IPA: (January 22, 1891 â€“ April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the themes of culture and leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition. He opposed a "philosophy of praxis" to materialist dialectics and is renowned for his concept of cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the state in a capitalist society.

And I started this thread because I started to read his book, Prison Notebook, and before that I really knew nothing about him. Books really long though (way too much spare time in prison). Also a fact that wiki didn't have was that his 2,000+ handwritten notes were smuggled out of prison on toliet paper (or at least parts of it).

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11 Oct 2006, 17:24

Add it to wikipedia! Or at least say something on the talk page and cite yourself.

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11 Oct 2006, 21:48

I find Gramsci extremely valueable for his construction of a well-argued and clearly observable theory of the phenomenon of ideological hegemony. Don't know much more about him though.

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19 Oct 2006, 02:35

If you're interested in Gramsci's work, but you don't want to read the long Prison Notebook, there's also a good book called "Gramsci and the historical block" (Gramsci y el Bloque HistÃ³rico) by Hugues Portelli. It's a very good summary of Grmasci's thought.

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19 Oct 2006, 09:39

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If you're interested in Gramsci's work, but you don't want to read the long Prison Notebook, there's also a good book called "Gramsci and the historical block" (Gramsci y el Bloque HistÃ³rico) by Hugues Portelli.

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Other good book:

Buci-Glucksmann - Gramsci and the state

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