Antonio Gramsci is one of the great European Marxists, hailed by Eric Hobsbawm as 'an extraordinary philosopher ... probably the most original communist thinker of twentieth-century Europe'. Gramsci developed Marx's ideas with an emphasis on culture rather than economics. This classic work reveals his thinking through letters to friends and family written whilst he was in prison. His primary contribution has been in his insistence on an understanding of popular culture in the battle to create a revolutionary consciousness. It is this humanitarian aspect of his thinking that illuminates the vivid personal testimony of his prison letters, written between 1926 and 1937.
| ISBN: | 9780745311302 |
| Publication date: | 20th May 1997 |
| Author: | Antonio Gramsci |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Political science and theory Left-of-centre democratic ideologies |
Antonio Gramsci is one of the great European Marxists, hailed by Eric Hobsbawm as 'an extraordinary philosopher ... probably the most original communist thinker of twentieth-century Europe'. Gramsci developed Marx's ideas with an emphasis on culture rather than economics. This classic work reveals his thinking through letters to friends and family written whilst he was in prison. His primary contribution has been in his insistence on an understanding of popular culture in the battle to create a revolutionary consciousness. It is this humanitarian aspect of his thinking that illuminates the vivid personal testimony of his prison letters, written between 1926 and 1937.
Prison Letters features in the following genres: Political science and theory, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Prison Letters is available in Paperback
Prison Letters was written by Antonio Gramsci and published by Pluto Press
Prison Letters has 304 pages
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