Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

Antonio Gramsci

Published by Columbia University Press 2021

Subaltern Social Groups

A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

Antonio Gramsci
Edited by: Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green

In the series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

https://doi.org/10.7312/gram19038

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This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.

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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.Buttigieg Joseph :

Joseph A. Buttigieg (PhD, English, SUNY Binghamton) is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of a number of books, most notably the complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (Columbia, 1992-2007). He is also a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society.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.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. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Gramsci’s thirty-three prison notebooks, which contain brilliant reflections on a vast range of subjects, are foundational for an array of disciplines and schools of thought.

Joseph A. Buttigieg is professor emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of a number of books, most notably the complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (Columbia, 1992–2007). He is also founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society.

Marcus E. Green teaches political science at Pasadena City College. He has published several articles focusing on Antonio Gramsci’s political thought and subalternity. He is editor of the anthology Rethinking Gramsci (2011) and was coeditor of the journal Rethinking Marxism. He serves as secretary of the International Gramsci Society.

Reviews

Kate Crehan, author of Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives:
Essential reading for all those interested in Gramsci. By skillfully combining a thematic with a philological approach and including relevant notes from the other prison notebooks, the editors reveal the profoundly historical nature of their author’s thought. History is never shoehorned into predetermined boxes. Gramsci’s theoretical concepts emerge out of history itself.

Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary:
Buttigieg and Green have done a remarkable job in making available to the English-speaking world this groundbreaking text of the leading Marxist thinker of the twentieth century.

Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination:
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have become a kind of Marxist oracle, a well-spring of pithy passages deployed in the service of interminable debates, especially around questions of culture, civil society, the state, history, and the role of intellectuals. On first glance, Gramsci’s 3,000 pages of research, reflections, and analyses may appear random, disordered, even coded. But serious Gramsci scholars know better, and there are few as serious as the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. Their painstaking and judicious reconstruction of Gramsci's writings on subaltern groups raises the bar, revealing with greater clarity the systematic development of his ideas on history, class struggles, folk culture, the state, the dynamic and contingent character of social movements, and the limits of a utopian imagination. This volume challenges us all to stop plumbing Gramsci’s notebooks for jewels and take the work and its context as a whole. Our scholarship and our movements will benefit.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak?":
The subaltern defined Antonio Gramsci's work. In this volume, Joseph A. Buttigieg's final gift to the world of Gramsci, devotedly assembled and fleshed out by his former student Marcus E. Green, we at last have the full view of how that definition came into being. A treasure.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Editor’s Notes Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Marcus E. Green Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Prison Notebooks
Notebook 25 (1934): On the Margins of History (The History of Subaltern Social Groups) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
First Draft Notes of Notebook 25 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Notes
Notebook 25 (1934): Description of the Manuscript Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Notes to the Text: Notebook 25 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Notes to the Text: First Draft Notes of Notebook 25 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Notes to the Text: Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Sequence of Notes by Title or Opening Phrase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Published: September 8, 2021
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