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In this wide-ranging and engaging evaluation of Gramsci’s political thought, Rosengraten focuses on the Sardinian’s legacy and lasting influence.
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PART ONE: GRAMSCI AS POLITICAL THINKER AND ACTIVIST
Introduction
1. The Gramsci-Trotsky Question
2. Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Communist Press in the Fascist Era
3. The Contemporary Relevance of Gramsci’s Views on the Italian ‘Southern Question’
PART TWO: GRAMSCI’S PRISON EXPERIENCE
4. Antonio Gramsci’s Letters from Prison
5. Gramsci’s Analysis of Canto X of Dante’s Inferno
6. Gramsci’s Path from ‘Plowman’ to ‘Fertiliser’ of History
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON GRAMSCI
7. Antonio Gramsci and C.L.R. James: Some Intriguing Similarities
8. On the Qualities of Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci, Edward Said, and Betty Friedan
9. Gramsci in the Caribbean
PART FOUR: TWO PROTAGONISTS OF GRAMSCI STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES
10. Gramscian Influences on Robert Dombroski’s Critical Engagement with Marxism
11. John Cammett’s Writings on Antonio Gramsci and the PCI
References
Index
About the author
Frank Rosengarten (1927-2014) Ph.D. in Italian, Columbia University, was professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University and the City University of New York. He edited several volumes of Gramsci's prison letters. Among his other publications are The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (2001), and Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society (2008)
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In this wide-ranging and engaging evaluation of Gramsci’s political thought, Rosengraten focuses on the Sardinian’s legacy and lasting influence.
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“Rosengarten’s detailed study on Gramsci avoids covering old ground by not only showing what Gramsci is famous for, but by also highlighting the reasons, struggles (personally and collectively) as well as the life experiences behind the man who gave us the highly instructive concept of ideological hegemony.”
—Thomas Klikauer, Capital and Class
"Frank Rosengarten’s posthumously published essays represent an emphatic vindication of the value of Gramsci's philosophy of praxis, both to unearthing new light on historical processes and to facilitating a re-orientation of the revolutionary project of the left in the 21st century. This collection represents one of most fruitful additions to Gramsciana since the publication of Peter Thomas' The Gramscian Moment in 2009."
—Sean Ledwith, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
