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Antonio Gramsci : An Intellectual Biography

1st ed. 2023

by Gianni Fresu

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISBN-10 3031156099
ISBN-13 9783031156090
Edition 1st ed. 2023
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 1st, 2022
Print length 404 Pages
Weight 540 grams
Dimensions 14.80 x 20.90 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification: European history Social & political philosophy Political science & theory
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This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramsci’s process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged.

This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramsci''s process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged. The Gramsci in Notebooks cannot fully account for the young director of L''Ordine Nuovo, or for the communist leader. Gramsci''s development did not occur under conditions of intellectual inflexibility, of absence of evolution. However, there is a strong thread connecting the "political Gramsci" with Gramsci as a "cultivated man." The Sardinian intellectual''s life is marked by the drama of World War I, the first mass conflict in which the great scientific discoveries of the previous decades were applied on a large scale and in which millions of peasants and workers were slaughtered. In all of his theoretical formulations, this dual relation, which epitomizes the instrumental use of "simpletons" by ruling classes, goes beyond the military context of the trenches and becomes full-fledged in the fundamental relations of modern capitalist society. In contrast with this notion of social hierarchy, which is deemed natural and unchangeable, Gramsci constantly affirmed the need to overcome the historically determined rupture between intellectual and manual functions, due to which the existence of a priesthood or of a separate caste of specialists in politics and in knowledge is made necessary. It is not the specific professional activity (whether material or immaterial) that determines the essence of human nature: to Gramsci, "all men are philosophers." In this passage from Notebooks, we find the condensed form of his idea of "human emancipation," which is the historical need for an "intellectual and moral reform": the subversion of traditional relations between rulers and ruled and the end of exploitation of man by man.


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