Reading Gramsci / / by Francisco Fernández Buey ; translated by Nicholas Gray.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 88
• VerfasserIn: Fernández Buey, Francisco,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gray, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 88.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Reading Gramsci is a collection of essays by Francisco Fernández Buey with a unifying theme: the enduring relevance of Gramsci’s political, philosophical and personal reflections for those who wish to understand and transform ‘the vast and terrible world’ of capital. Reading Gramsci is of considerable biographical and philosophical interest for scholars and partisans of communism alike. Fernández Buey distils Gramsci’s intimate thinking on the relation between love and revolutionary engagement from Gramsci’s personal correspondence; he reveals how Gramsci draws on both Marxism and Machiavellianism in order to formulate his conception of politics as a collective ethics; he retraces the trajectory of Gramsci’s thinking in the Prison Notebooks , and elucidates Gramsci’s reflections on the relation between language and politics. English translation of Leyendo a Gramsci , published by El Viejo Topo in 2001.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Love and Revolution -- 2 The Ethico-Political Project of Antonio Gramsci -- 3 The Plan, Structure, and Themes of the Prison Notebooks -- 4 Language and Politics in Gramsci -- 1 Brecht, ‘To Those Born Later’ -- 2 Guide to Reading Gramsci -- References -- Index.