An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in Gramsci's thought, as revelatory today as on first publication in New Left Review in 1976. This landmark essay has been the subject of keen debate across four decades for its disentangling of the hesitations and contradictions in Gramsci's highly original usage of such key dichotomies as East and West, domination and direction, hegemony and dictatorship, state and civil society, war of position and war of movement. In a critical tribute to the international richness of Gramsci's work, Anderson shows how deeply embedded these notions were in the revolutionary debates in Tsarist Russia and Wilhemine Germany, in which arguments criss-crossed between Plekhanov, Lenin, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lukacs and Trotsky, with contemporary echoes in Brecht and Benjamin. A preface considers the objections this account of Gramsci provoked, as well as a memorable intervention by the late Eric Hobsbawm.

First release of Perry Anderson's classic study of the great Italian Marxist in paperback book form

About the Author
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, The H-Word - a companion volume to Antinomies - American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, The Indian Ideology, The New Old World, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions and The Origins of Postmodernity. He is an editor at New Left Review.

Reviews
A remarkable example of the deep, historically situated reading of complex texts -- Wolfgang Streeck * London Review of Books *
Anderson is the most distinguished living Marxist historian -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *



Book Information
ISBN 9781786633736
Author Perry Anderson
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 244g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 15mm