Reading Gramsci: Historical Materialism Volume 88 - Softcover

Buey, Francisco Fernández

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608465616 ISBN 13: 9781608465613

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2016

Synopsis

Reading Gramsci is a collection of essays by Spain’s most famous Gramsci scholar, 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. 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.

Reading Gramsci is of considerable biographical and philosophical interest for scholars and partisans of communism alike.

English translation of Leyendo a Gramsci, published by El Viejo Topo in 2001

Part of the Historical Materialism (HM) Book Series.

About this title

About the Author

Francisco Fernández Buey, Ph.D. (1982), University of Barcelona, was Professor of Political Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He published numerous monographs and articles on Marxist philosophy, including Ensayos sobre Gramsci (Materiales, 1978) and Marx (sin ismos) (Viejo Topo, 1999)

Nicholas Gray is DPhil candidate at the University of Sussex, researching Marx’s theory of reification. He has published articles on Marxist philosophy and translated ‘The Accumulation of Capital’ in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2 (Verso, forthcoming 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608465616
• ISBN 13: 9781608465613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185