"What the future fortunes of Gramsci's] writings will be, we
cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure,
and justifies the historical study of his international reception.
The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation
for this." --Eric Hobsbawm, from the preface
Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the
world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps
the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is
proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's
masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and
revolutionary.
Gramscian terms such as "civil society" and "hegemony" are much
used in everyday political discourse. Santucci warns us, however,
that these words have been appropriated by both radicals and
conservatives for contemporary and often self-serving ends that
often have nothing to do with Gramsci's purposes in developing
them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time
and again in his dissection of Gramsci's writings, is absorb
Gramsci's methods. These can be summed up as the suspicion of
"grand explanatory schemes," the unity of theory and practice, and
a focus on the details of everyday life. With respect to the last
of these, Joseph Buttigieg says in his "Nota" "Gramsci did not set
out to explain historical reality armed with some full-fledged
concept, such as hegemony; rather, he examined the minutiae of
concrete social, economic, cultural, and political relations as
they are lived in by individuals in their specific historical
circumstances and, gradually, he acquired an increasingly complex
understanding of how hegemony operates in many diverse ways and
under many aspects within the capillaries of society."
The rigor of Santucci's examination of Gramsci's life and work
matches that of the seminal thought of the master himself. Readers
will be enlightened and inspired by every page.
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