This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker, Antonio Gramsci. Author of the famous Prison Notebooks – over 2,000 pages of profound and influential reflections on history, culture, politics, philosophy and revolution – and head of Italian Communist Party in the 1920s, Antonio Gramsci is one of the most important European political thinkers of the 20th century. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci provides an accessible overview of Gramsci’s conceptions of culture, politics and philosophy and, crucially, analyses how Gramsci’s theories can be applied in the context of 21st-century global politics and to issues such as Brexit, Covid, the rise of populism and the Ukraine crisis.
This edition includes:
· A brand new chapter that considers Gramsci’s relevance to contemporary politics and events
· Expanded and updated sections relating to political theory and political economy
· An exploration of the most recent Gramsci scholarship
· Additional sections on ‘Gramsci and the New Right’ and ‘Gramscian Gender Studies’
