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
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 34 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #41 in European History (Books)
- #24 in Political Ideologies
- #39 in Fascism (Books)

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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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This is an Often Quoted or Referenced Text in Academic Writing. It's Worth Taking Time to Read through the Original Text!

May 16, 2016

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This book is not light reading. It really is for academics and people interested in political resistance and theories of social and political protest. There's much in here that provides insight into perspectives on theories of sociocultural oppression and challenges to status quo thought and action. I have to take my time reading through it, and I continue to return to Gramsci's work. I recommend this text to graduate students and scholars interested in culture, social theory, and how different conceptions of power shape and work in the world.

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James Ziegler

Unusable.

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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Clare

Very poorly edited Kindle version

October 19, 2018

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Gramsci was a great thinker so the one star is not for him; it's for the really bad conversion to ebook format. Firstly because there's no table of contents, so you have to wade through an extremely lengthy and tedious introduction before you even get to the stuff Gramsci wrote. Secondly because the notes (of which there are loads) are simply plumped right in the middle of sentences, making the thing essentially unreadable.

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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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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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Alex Ross

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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Immortal classic

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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