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Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

Gramsci, Antonio
Buttigieg, Joseph a.
Green, Marcus E.

Paperback

Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0231190395
ISBN13: 9780231190398
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 10 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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