Antonio Gramsci - Towards an Intellectual Biography

This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

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Product details

• Authors: Davidson Alastair, Alastair Davidson, Davidson Alastair
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2018
• EAN: 9781608468256
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-825-6
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Social welfare and social services, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Marxism & Communism, Political ideologies and movements, Political activism / Political engagement