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Antonio Gramsci: A Biography
A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of Gramsci from his childhood, to his role in the newly formed Communist Party of Italy, and to his imprisonment and death in Turi di Bari, using recent archival research including material released by the Gramsci and Schucht family.
249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2020
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January 8, 2022
A good basic biography of Gramsci that touches on his theoretical work (backwardness of Italian society, church/state, hegemony) when appropriate. It was a life of terrible isolation from his childhood in Sardinia to the many years in prison. It’s incredible that he was able to create such a powerful body of work during his confinement, in constant ill health and bedeviled by in-laws (the neurotic Schuchts) and a family who were maddeningly unsupportive. The goal of the fascist prosecutor to “stop that brain from working for 20 years” was triumphantly defeated. As Pearmain says, AG was the preeminent philosopher of defeat and his writing is still a way forward for a dispirited progressivism if we would only take the time to think about a way forward.
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