Antonio Gramsci : towards an intellectual biography /

Antonio Gramsci : towards an intellectual biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Davidson, Alastair, 1939- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Historical materialism book series ; volume 129 Historical materialism book series ; volume 129.
Subject:	Gramsci, Antonio, -- 1891-1937. Gramsci, Antonio, -- 1891-1937. Communists -- Italy -- Biography. Communists. Italy. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757473

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ISBN:	9789004326309 9004326308 9789004326293 9004326294
Notes:	"New edition"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Many large Italian cities have a main thoroughfare 'via Gramsci', showing that the Communist leader has become part of Italy's 'national patrimony', while internationally, the interest in Gramsci's writings is second to none. As a consequence of this fame, Gramsci's heritage is claimed by rival groups: on the one hand by those who hope to establish his writings as 'sacred texts' for their own policies and on the other by those who stress any differences with Lenin in order to prove Gramsci a 'rebel'. A great merit of this biography is that it lifts the study of Gramsci away from the sterile debate about whether he was or was not a Leninist; another achievement of the author has been to integrate the circumstances of Gramsci's life - the childhood in Sardinia, the politics of the left in the 1920s, the years of exile and prison - with his developing political and philosophical ideas.
Other form:	Print version: Davidson, Alastair, 1939- Antonio Gramsci. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004326293

Table of Contents:

Introduction
A country boy
Making the country boy an Italian
A philosophy of praxis
' ... an international figure?'
A revolutionary theory.