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Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25
Contributor(s): Gramsci, Antonio (Author), Buttigieg, Joseph a. (Editor), Green, Marcus E. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0231190387     ISBN-13: 9780231190381
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Published: August 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.37 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary theory, and postcolonial criticism to anthropology, sociology, criminology, and disability studies. Almost every author whose work touches upon subalterns alludes to Gramsci's formulation of the concept. Yet Gramsci's original writings on the topic have not yet appeared in full in English.

Among his prison notebooks, Gramsci devoted a single notebook to the theme of subaltern social groups. Notebook 25, which he entitled "On the Margins of History (History of Subaltern Social Groups)," contains a series of observations on subaltern groups from ancient Rome and medieval communes to the period after the Italian Risorgimento, in addition to discussions of the state, intellectuals, the methodological criteria of historical analysis, and reflections on utopias and philosophical novels. This volume presents the first complete translation of Gramsci's notes on the topic. In addition to a comprehensive translation of Notebook 25 along with Gramsci's first draft and related notes on subaltern groups, it includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci's history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters. Subaltern Social Groups is an indispensable account of the development of one of the crucial concepts in twentieth-century thought.

Contributor Bio(s): Green, Marcus E.: - Marcus E. Green (PhD, Political Science, York) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Otterbein University. He is the editor of Rethinking Gramsci (Routledge, 2011) and has published in such journals as Postcolonial Studies, Historical Materialism, and Rethinking Marxism. He is currently completing a book on Gramsci and subalternity.Gramsci, Antonio: - Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an Italian Marxist theorist, one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party, and founder of the official Party newspaper, l'Unita. Widely considered a leading exponent of post-Lenin neo-Marxism, he was imprisoned in 1926 by Mussolini's Fascist regime and remained incarcerated until shortly before his death. During this period he wrote more than 30 notebooks, which detailed his ideas about Italian history, critical theory, and Marxism. Among his key contributions to political theory is the notion of cultural hegemony, the means by which the ruling capitalist class maintains control of the state. In addition to the Prison Notebooks (Columbia, 1992-2007, three volumes), his Letters from Prison (Columbia, 1994, two volumes) and a collection of Pre-Prison Writings (Cambridge, 1994) have been published.
 
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