{"id":11622,"date":"2010-07-29T22:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2353"},"modified":"2010-07-29T22:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:02:56","slug":"antonio-gramsci-biography-by-antonio-a-santucci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/antonio-gramsci-biography-by-antonio-a-santucci\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Gramsci: Biography by Antonio A. Santucci"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world\u2019s greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world’s preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci’s masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and revolutionary.<\/p>\n

\tGramscian 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 often have nothing to do with Gramsci\u2019s purposes in developing them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time and again in his dissection of Gramsci’s writings, is absorb Gramsci\u2019s 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. With respect to the last of these, Joseph Buttigieg says in his Nota: “Gramsci did not set out to explain historical reality armed with some full-fledged concept, such as hegemony; rather, he examined the minutiae of concrete social, economic, cultural, and political relations as they are lived by individuals in their specific historical circumstances and, gradually, he acquired an increasingly complex understanding of how hegemony operates in many diverse ways and under many aspects within the capillaries of society.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Antonio Gramsci
\nby Antonio A. Santucci
\nPreface by Eric J. Hobsbawm
\nForeword by Joseph A. Buttigieg
\nTranslated by Graziella DiMauro with Salvatore Engel-DiMauro
\nISBN: 978-1-58367-210-5
\n$15.95 paperback
\n208 pp.
\nJune 2010<\/p>\n

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