Subaltern Social Groups by Antonio Gramsci

Subaltern Social Groups by Antonio Gramsci

This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramscis notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramscis history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.

The subaltern defined Antonio Gramsci's workIn this volume, Joseph A. Buttigieg's final gift to the world of Gramsci, devotedly assembled and fleshed out by his former student Marcus E. Green, we at last have the full view of how that definition came into being. A treasure. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have become a kind of Marxist oracle, a well-spring of pithy passages deployed in the service of interminable debates, especially around questions of culture, civil society, the state, history, and the role of intellectuals. On first glance, Gramsci’s 3,000 pages of research, reflections, and analyses may appear random, disordered, even coded. But serious Gramsci scholars know better, and there are few as serious as the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. Their painstaking and judicious reconstruction of Gramsci's writings on subaltern groups raises the bar, revealing with greater clarity the systematic development of his ideas on history, class struggles, folk culture, the state, the dynamic and contingent character of social movements, and the limits of a utopian imagination. This volume challenges us all to stop plumbing Gramsci’s notebooks for jewels and take the work and its context as a whole. Our scholarship and our movements will benefit. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Buttigieg and Green have done a remarkable job in making available to the English-speaking world this groundbreaking text of the leading Marxist thinker of the twentieth century. -- Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary
Essential reading for all those interested in Gramsci. By skillfully combining a thematic with a philological approach and including relevant notes from the other prison notebooks, the editors reveal the profoundly historical nature of their author’s thought. History is never shoehorned into predetermined boxes. Gramsci’s theoretical concepts emerge out of history itself. -- Kate Crehan, author of Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an Italian Marxist theorist, one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party, and founder of the official party newspaper, l’Unita. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Gramsci’s thirty-three prison notebooks, which contain brilliant reflections on a vast range of subjects, are foundational for an array of disciplines and schools of thought.

Joseph A. Buttigieg (1947–2019) was professor emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He was the author and editor of a number of books, most notably the complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (Columbia, 1992–2007). He was also the founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society.

Marcus E. Green teaches political science at Pasadena City College. He has published several articles focusing on Antonio Gramsci’s political thought and subalternity. He is editor of the anthology Rethinking Gramsci (2011) and was coeditor of the journal Rethinking Marxism. He serves as secretary of the International Gramsci Society.

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ISBN 13	9780231190398
ISBN 10	0231190395
Title	Subaltern Social Groups
Author	Antonio Gramsci
Series	European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2021-08-10
Number of pages	288
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