Selections from the Prison Notebooks Reprint, 1989 Edition

by Antonio Gramsci (Author), Quintin Hoare (Editor), Geoffrey Nowell Smith (Editor)

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Paperback: 572 pages
Publisher: International Publishers Co; Reprint, 1989 edition (November 24, 1971)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 071780397X
ISBN-13: 978-0717803972
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8 inches
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Kindle version still requires editing

July 21, 2016

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Unfortunately, the kindle version still (true to July 2016) suffers from poor editing. Sentences like "In any case one can see today, with the changes in the traditional idea of culture, the way in which the school It will is be in crisis and necessary with to it the replace study Latin of and Latin and Greek Greek." don't only hamper the reading experience, but render some sections utterly unintelligible.

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February 2, 2017

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This edition is unreadable. The table of contents is unusable and so unless you want to flip through what seem like hundreds of pages of introduction before you even get to Gramsci and then struggle to navigate within the book all the way through, you'd be better off just going for a physical edition.

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This is a review of the Kindle edition only. ...

August 17, 2015

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This is a review of the Kindle edition only. This is not a review of the content of the text. The Kindle edition is literally unreadable; it is simply a scan that was not even proofread. Most of it is gibberish. Do not buy the Kindle edition.

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Osaka

The greatest marxist thinker of the 20th century

March 27, 2012

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Hi everybody!

Gramsci's prison notebooks are in my humble opinion the most important marxist opus since Das Kapital. Not only does Gramsci express himself in a very clear and precise way which is always easy to grasp (something which cannot always be said of Marx, unfortunately) but he also most importantly addresses the elephant in the room of early/mid 20th century marxism, that is, the failure of socialist revolutions in the west, in particular the tragic fate of Rosa Luxemburg and her Spartakusbund. The imminent fall of capitalism in western capitalists countries predicted by Marx having not come to pass, somebody had to tackle the problem and try to explain what went wrong.

Gramsci's analysis centers on the concepts of cultural hegemony, arguing that the ruling capitalist class managed to spread it's values on the whole of society, thus putting fetters on the working class struggle for emancipation. By absorbing the bourgeois worldview and making it it's own against it's own interests, the proletariat's capacity to achieve class counsciousness and develop it's own culture, to bring foward it's own demands and finally grasp state power is hindered. Gramsci thus argues that it is essential for the working class to create and adopt it's own ¨good sense¨ and let go of the bourgeois ¨common sense¨ which is nothing but a set of specific values benefiting the status quo and slowing down the process of socialist victory.

Also of great importance are the analysis of civil society in the west and it's relation to the state, which is opposite of what it was in Russia at the time of the october revolution and the importance of political manoeuvering stressed out in the modern prince. The vulgar interpretation of historical materialism, proposed by the like of Bukharin for exemple, is also challenged. The static and fatalistic vision of laws of history existing outside human activity and acting on their own was already challenged by Engels himself at the end of his life, and Gramsci picks up right where he left off. By stressing out that only mankind itsef can set into motion the laws of historical materialism, Gramsci brings back the importance of praxis into marxist ideology, pointing out the need to actively struggle to bring about the inevitable outcome of socialism, outcome which is inevitable only if the working class actually acts upon the world and changes it.

Greatly Recommended!

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Simon Lee

Kindle edition format extremely flawed: Unreadable.

October 28, 2015

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This is for the Kindle edition: Despite other reviews saying the Kindle version is readable: THIS IS NOT THE CASE. As of 10/28/2015, the coding and the typeface is really screwed up. My own book I self published has no formatting errors for a lesser price (I won't link it, I am not promoting, just pointing out how ridiculous this is). Do not buy on Kindle; even if someone claims it is fixed, I fell for it, I plead with you that you do not.

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October 18, 2017

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Classic. Even if you are not interested in marxism this is a must read for thosr who study social sciences or politics.

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Excellent book, despite promise of a new edition still ...

October 31, 2017

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Excellent book, despite promise of a new edition still has terrible formatting and pg numbers in the middle of a sentence. Not cool.

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June 18, 2018

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Good organization of the notes—helpful commentary from editors. A good student edition for a class.

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