Cadernos do Cárcere: a filosofia da praxis - Vol. 1

by Antonio Gramsci

Enquanto esteve preso às mãos do regime fascista de Mussolini, entre 1926 e 1937, Antonio Gramsci preencheu dezenas de cadernos com milhares de apontamentos sobre os mais variados temas, da história à ciência política, da linguística à filosofia. Esse acervo de mais de 3000 páginas constitui um dos documentos mais impressionantes da época e uma contribuição incalculável para a teoria política do século XX.

Nesta edição, Carlos Carujo optou por agrupar os escritos mais representativos de Gramsci em dois grandes núcleos temáticos, separados em dois volumes. No primeiro, o motivo unificador é a filosofia.

461 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2023

About the author

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, where he remained until his death in 1937.

During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources — not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. He also attempted to break from the economic determinism of orthodox Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a philosophy of praxis and an absolute historicism that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.