Antonio Gramsci

This Book Is A Brilliant And Stimulating Synthesis Of GramsciS Life And Thought. Students And Scholars Alike Will Find It Extremely Rewarding. Antonio A. Santucci Brings To The Study Of Gramsci A Fine Historical Sensitivity And A Rigorous Theoretical Depth. -Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, Author Of Hegemony And Power: On The Relation Between Gramsci And Machiavelli Antonio Gramsci Is A Giant Of Marxian Thought And One Of The WorldS Greatest Cultural Critics. Antonio A. Santucci Was Perhaps The WorldS Preminent Gramsci Scholar. Monthly Review Press Is Proud To Publish, For The First Time In English, SantucciS Masterful Intellectual Biography Of The Great Sardinian Scholar And Revolutionary. Gramscian Terms Such As Civil Society And Hegemony Are Much Used In Everyday Political Discourse. Santucci Warns Us, However, That These Words Have Been Appropriated By Both Radicals And Conservatives For Contemporary And Often Self-Serving Ends That Have Nothing To Do With GramsciS Purposes In Developing Them. Rather What We Must Do, And What Santucci Illustrates Time And Again In His Dissection Of GramsciS Writings, Is Absorb GramsciS Methods. These Can Be Summed Up As The Suspicion Of Grand Explanatory Schemes, The Unity Of Theory And Practice, And A Focus On The Details Of Everyday Life. The Rigor Of SantucciS Examination Of GramsciS Life And Work Matches That Of The Seminal Thought Of The Master Himself.