Gramsci's political thought / by Carlos Nelson Coutinho ; translated from the Portuguese by Pedro Sette-Câmara ; with a foreword by Joseph A. Buttigieg.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, v. 38
• Author: Coutinho, Carlos Nelson.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sette-Camara, Pedro.; Buttigieg, Joseph A.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Gramsci's Political Thought , Carlos Nelson Coutinho offers an analysis of the evolution of the political thought of Antonio Gramsci. Focusing on central concepts of the Prison Notebooks and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, the book also demonstrates that Gramsci’s ideas continue to be relevant resources for understanding the controversies of our present time. Written by a leading Brazilian Marxist theorist, Gramsci's Political Thought provides one of the most succinct and theoretically focused introductions to the thought of Antonio Gramsci available internationally.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Youth, a contradictory formation: 1910-18 -- Workers' democracy and factory-councils: 1919-20 -- Passage to maturity: 1921-6 -- Methodological observations on the prison notebooks -- The 'extended' theory of the state -- The party as 'collective intellectual' -- The current relevance and universality of Gramsci.