Antonio Gramsci

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born

January 22, 1891 in Ales, Italy

died

April 27, 1937

genre

Politics, Social Sciences, Philosophy

influences

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir L...more

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Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political theorist, linguist and philosopher. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition. He is renowned for his concept of cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the state in a capitalist society.

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Books by Antonio Gramsci

Average rating: 4.11 · 1,017 ratings · 51 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci by Antonio Gramsci, Geoffrey N. Smith (Translator), Quintin Hoare (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 683 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 by Antonio Gramsci, David Forgacs, Eric J. Hobsbawm 4.08 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prison Notebooks, Volume 1 by Antonio Gramsci, Joseph A. Buttigieg (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Modern Prince and Other Writings 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gramsci's Prison Letters by Antonio Gramsci, Hamish Henderson (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1972 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Southern Question (Picas Series) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci, Joseph Buttigieg (Translator) 4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Selections from Cultural Writings 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Odio gli indifferenti 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Prison Notebooks, Volume II by Antonio Gramsci, Joseph Buttigieg (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating: