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Few revolutionaries have a heritage so contested by rival groups as Antonio Gramsci. Many use his writings as sacred texts’ for their own policies, and while others stress any differences with Lenin in order to prove Gramsci a rebel.’ In this stirring biography, Davidson cuts through these sterile debates and instead focuses on Gramsci’s own political and philosophical ideas.
Price: $30.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date:
20 February 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608468256
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Political leaders and leadership, European history, Political ideologies and movements, Biography: general, Political activism / Political engagement, Social welfare, social policy and social services
“The book [has aged] beautifully. It still reads splendidly, from the beginning call to that which is truly contingent, ‘towards’… . For like its subject, it is written into its own historicity.”
—Peter Beilharz, Thesis Eleven
“From [this book] we can draw admiration for the moral strength of Gramsci himself, capable of keeping his mental sanity in prison through his commitment to intellectual ideals and loyal friendships.”
—Franco Manni, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
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).
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
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