Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political
theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this
important twentieth-century thinker. Geromino analyzes Gramsci's
remarkable life as well as his extensive oeuvre, from the early
Turin articles to the meditative Prison Notebooks.
Gramsci saw society as composed of a small but powerful
political center and a large body of emarginati -- marginalized
people at the periphery of society, who are denied access to
traditional positions of power. That vision led Gramsci to
concentrate on the significance of the "common man" as he developed
his theory Of the political organization of society, The persistent
theme in Gramsci's work is how the ordinary man thinks, feels, and
endures, and how the course of political institutions is shaped by
the efforts of the marginalized to erode the boundaries of the
center. Gramsci's approach is perhaps best expressed as a reunion
of philosophy and experience and revaluation of the quotidian.
Gramsci's new politics of inclusion anticipated by well over a
half-century the recent epoch-making developments in the USSR and
in Eastern Europe. His anti-authoritarian leadership style as
secretary of the Italian Communist party in the 1920s prefigured
Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost. Gramsci's
insistence on the international Communist movement's openness to
new social formations at the grass roots is supremely relevant to
developments in Romania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland,
where forces hitherto kept at the margins of political life by
ossified Communist-party structures have burst on the scene with
unprecedented vitality.
Germino's compelling study ofGramsci's personal life and
intellectual development offers fresh insights into Gramsci's work
that will be of interest to all students of cultural and political
theory, of particular interest is bas extensive consideration of
the preprison writings both in their own right and for the
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