Scritti su Gramsci (i libri di deriveapprodi)

by Mario Tronti, Pasquale Serra (editor)

Questo libro propone, per la prima volta insieme, i due scritti di esordio di Mario Alcune questioni intorno al marxismo di Gramsci e Tra materialismo dialettico e filosofia della prassi. Gramsci e Labriola. Si tratta di saggi temerari, scritti nel 1958 e nel 1959, da considerare finora infatti, come nota il curatore Pasquale Serra nell’Introduzione al volume, non sono quasi mai stati letti o discussi, né dalla vecchia né dalla nuova letteratura gramsciana. In essi Tronti racchiude tutti i problemi che ruotano intorno a Gramsci, anticipando di qualche decennio importanti studiosi dell’intellettuale militante sardo. Ciò gli permette di evidenziare non solo la grandezza e l’originalità di Gramsci, ma anche i suoi limiti filosofici e teorico-politici.Ne emerge una figura inedita, non in rottura bensì in continuità con la tradizione idealistica italiana che va da De Sanctis a Gentile e Croce. Questi due saggi si possono considerare punti di riferimento del pensiero politico fino a oggi silenziati, capaci di spiazzare e stravolgere gli studi su Gramsci.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2024

About the author

Mario Tronti was an Italian philosopher and politician, considered as one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly short book but jesus lord was this a difficult read. We really lost a real one when Tronti died fr.

Half of this book is the introduction by Pasquale Serra and 90% of that introduction is page-long footnotes quoting Gentile, Croce, Tronti and others so the first part was a bit of a slog. If you're gonna read it familiarize yourself with Italian idealism a little because this one is heavy on Croce and Gentile.

I have to say despite the difficulty it was a really pleasant read and totally not what I expected it to be. There's not much on Gramsci himself as there is on the bizarre origins of Marxism in Italy. Effectively Tronti shows in these essays that when Labriola brought Marx and Marxism to Italy he lacked the theoretical and practical push that Lenin had and was thus unable to effectively introduce him. This sort of left Marxism vulnerable to critique, and critique they did...
And the fun thing about these critiques (Gentile's "attualismo" and Croce's reduction of Dialectical Materialism to mere historical analysis) is the fact that Tronti is able to show how, in the Italian context, Marx was the means by which Hegelian idealism was introduced in Italy. So instead of Marx being brought in as the critique of Hegel he was actually more so the vessel that ended up introducing Hegel through people like Croce and Gentile. Marxism thus never truly managed to break through in Italian politics and italian philosophy until Gramsci's prison notebooks were able to break free of this idealist curse.

Again, an incredibly complicated couple essays written by one of the greatest minds I've ever had the pleasure of reading, but also a very interesting background to the history of Marxism in the Italian context.