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  • Prison notebooks - Gramsci

    Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891 — 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, literary critic, linguist, historian, and politician. He wrote extensively on political theory, sociology, anthropology, history, and linguistics. Gramsci was elected as a deputy for the Italian Communist Party and spent eight years in prison under Mussolini's orders.From the period of his imprisonment, two ... Read more

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  • International Folkloristics

    Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore

    International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

    Narrated by David Pickering ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 48 min

    The Prison Notebooks were a series of essays written by the Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, and the notebooks were written between 1929 and 1935, when Gramsci was released from prison on grounds of ill-health. He died in April 1937.Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Social Groups

    A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

    Series Book 25 - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    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 ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Social Groups

    A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25

    Series Book 25 - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    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 ... Read more

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  • Italian Critics of Capitalism

    Over the last hundred years the history of capitalism hardly supports the idea of a dynamic equilibrium between democracy and capitalism. The unprecedented triumph of global capitalism and its stronger power of transformation are changing the nature of political community and its institutions, transforming the conditions of democratic politics and governance. The writings collected in this volume ... Read more

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    Antonio Gramsci: A very short introduction.On November 8th, 1926 Antonio Gramsci, a newspaper editor, Marxist thinker, and elected member of the parliament for the Italian Communist Party was arrested by the Italian Fascist police despite his parliamentary immunity, and sent to the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. The party was outlawed by Benito Mussolini during his regime, and Mr. ... Read more

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  • Israel and the European Left

    Between Solidarity and Delegitimization

    Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel? To answer this question, Colin Shindler looks at the struggle between Marxism-Leninism and Zionism from the October Revolution to today.Is such antagonism in opposition to the policies of successive Israeli governments? Or, is it due to a resurgence of anti-Semitism? The answer is far more complex. Shindler argues that the new ... Read more

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  • A Piece of the Pie

    The Battle over Nationalisation

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    Nationalisation: Swear word for some, cure-all for others both within and outside the ruling party.Tim Cohen, a senior journalist with many years experience in both political and business reporting, traces the emergence of calls for nationalisation in South African politics. It is a subject which has become the most fiercely argued and passionate economic debate of modern-day South African ... Read more

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  • The Comparative Approach to National Movements

    Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies

    Edited by Alexander Maxwell ...
    Series series Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this book explore Hroch’s continued relevance to the field of nationalism studies with four case studies ... Read more

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  • The Marx Machine

    Politics, Polemics, Ideology

    Karl Marx has rarely, if ever, been treated as a writer. Charles Barbour argues not only that we can examine the literary and rhetorical aspects of Marx’s texts, but also that, as soon as we begin to do so, those texts begin to take on new and entirely unexpected political implications. In the past, Marx scholars have characterized his literary remains as either a relatively coherent body of work, ... Read more

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  • Democratic Statecraft

    Political Realism and Popular Power

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    The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve of powerful elites, leaving democracy to ineffectual idealists? J. S. Maloy demonstrates that the ... Read more

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