Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521892698)

This is an interpretative and evaluative study of the thought of Antonio Gramsci, the founding father of the Italian Communist Party who died in 1937 after ten years of imprisonment in Fascist jails. It proceeds by a rigorous textual analysis of his Prison Notebooks, the scattered notes he wrote during his incarceration. Professor Finocchiaro explores the nature of Gramsci's dialectical thinking, in order to show in what ways Gramsci was and was not a Marxist, as well as to illustrate correspondences with the work of Hegel, Croce, and Bukharin. The book provides a critical reappraisal of Gramsci as a thinker and of the dialectical approach as a mode of inquiry.

Author: Maurice A. Finocchiaro
ISBN-10: 0521892694
ISBN-13: 9780521892698
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2002
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.10w x 0.84d