Antonio Gramsci

Préface
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Auteur
Alastair Davidson, Ph.D. (1966), Australian National University, is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Monash University. He has spent much of his life in Italy and explored the Sardinian background in some detail, as well as researched at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. He is the author of twenty books and hundreds of articles including The Theory and Practice of Italian Communism (Merlin Press, 1982); with Steve Wright eds., ‘Never Give In’ The Italian Resistance and Politics (Peter Lang, 1998); The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle for Universal Human Rights (Springer, 2012); Migration in the Age of Genocide: Law, Forgiveness and Revenge (Springer, 2015).

Texte du rabat

This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

Résumé
This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci's legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

Contenu
Preface for the New Edition ... ix
Acknowledgements ... xxiv

Foreword ... xxv
Norberto Bobbio

Introduction ... 1
1 A Country Boy ... 6
2 Making the Country Boy an Italian ... 56
3 A Philosophy of Praxis ... 104
4 ' an International Figure?' ... 172
5 A Revolutionary Theory ... 250

Bibliography ... 293
Index ... 306