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Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political
thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his
enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity.
Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and
Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential
across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary
theory, and postcolonial criticism to anthropology, sociology,
criminology, and disability studies. Almost every author whose work
touches upon subalterns alludes to Gramsci's formulation of the
concept. Yet Gramsci's original writings on the topic have not yet
appeared in full in English. Among his prison notebooks, Gramsci
devoted a single notebook to the theme of subaltern social groups.
Notebook 25, which he entitled "On the Margins of History (History
of Subaltern Social Groups)," contains a series of observations on
subaltern groups from ancient Rome and medieval communes to the
period after the Italian Risorgimento, in addition to discussions
of the state, intellectuals, the methodological criteria of
historical analysis, and reflections on utopias and philosophical
novels. This volume presents the first complete translation of
Gramsci's notes on the topic. In addition to a comprehensive
translation of Notebook 25 along with Gramsci's first draft and
related notes on subaltern groups, it includes a critical apparatus
that clarifies Gramsci's history, culture, and sources and
contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and
letters. Subaltern Social Groups is an indispensable account of the
development of one of the crucial concepts in twentieth-century
thought.
Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political
thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his
enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity.
Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and
Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential
across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary
theory, and postcolonial criticism to anthropology, sociology,
criminology, and disability studies. Almost every author whose work
touches upon subalterns alludes to Gramsci's formulation of the
concept. Yet Gramsci's original writings on the topic have not yet
appeared in full in English. Among his prison notebooks, Gramsci
devoted a single notebook to the theme of subaltern social groups.
Notebook 25, which he entitled "On the Margins of History (History
of Subaltern Social Groups)," contains a series of observations on
subaltern groups from ancient Rome and medieval communes to the
period after the Italian Risorgimento, in addition to discussions
of the state, intellectuals, the methodological criteria of
historical analysis, and reflections on utopias and philosophical
novels. This volume presents the first complete translation of
Gramsci's notes on the topic. In addition to a comprehensive
translation of Notebook 25 along with Gramsci's first draft and
related notes on subaltern groups, it includes a critical apparatus
that clarifies Gramsci's history, culture, and sources and
contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and
letters. Subaltern Social Groups is an indispensable account of the
development of one of the crucial concepts in twentieth-century
thought.
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