Antonio Gramsci was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker whose interpretations of Marxism helped rescue it from determinism and economic reductionism. In the words of Stuart Hall: 'Reading Gramsci has fertilised our political imagination, transformed our way of thinking, our style of thought, our whole political project'. Gramsci's creative use of terms such as hegemony, civil society and historic block adds a new dimension to political vocabulary. But the fragmentary nature of his writings, especially in the Prison Notebooks, means that it is not always easy to grasp the full significance of his ideas. This book, completely revised in 1991 and further revised in 2015, provides an account of Gramsci's work which makes his writing accessible and comprehensible for the contemporary reader.

About the Author
Roger Simon was an economist and researcher who played a major role in the 1970s and 1980s in making available and disseminating English translations of Gramsci's writings.

Reviews
'A political book in the best sense - explains the most important ideas from Gramsci's works in simple, straightforward language, considering their relevance for a left strategy in Britain' Anne Showstack Sassoon 'A clear, coherent account of Gramsci's main writings' Times Literary Supplement 'A rigorous and polemical lifeline - distils from Gramsci's huge output the essence of his theoretical contribution' Marxism Today



Book Information
ISBN 9781910448144
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Publisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd