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درآمدی بر اندیشههای سیاسی آنتونیو گرامشی
بیتردید آنتونیو گرامشی (۱۸۹۱-۱۹۳۷)، اندیشمند مارکسیست ایتالیایی، را باید در زمره برجستهترین متفکران معاصر دانست که میان تأملات نظری و افکار و عقاید وی با زندگی و حیات عملی و مبارزاتش در جنبش کارگری ایتالیا در نقش روشنفکر انقلابی طبقه کارگر و در مقام یک انقلابی حرفهای به معنای مبسوط کلمه پیوندی تنگاتنگ و ناگسستنی وجود دارد. از یک سو واکاوی طیف گسترده آثار و نوشتههای به جامانده از وی سیمای یک فیلسوف، یک ژورنالیست، یک تئوریسین و یک استراتژیست و گاه یک آکادمیسین را از او به نمایش میگذارد و از دیگر سو شخصیت او را در نقش فعال جنبش کارگری، دبیر کل حزبی سیاسی و مبارزی ضدفاشیسم نمایان و برجسته میسازد. این دو چهره ژانوسی طی چند دهه گذشته دائما برساخته میشوند و گاه به مناقشههای نظری شورانگیزی انجامیدهاند.
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
About the author
Roger Simon
41 books2 followersRoger Mitchell Simon (1948–2026) was an American writer and commentator, the chief political columnist of Politico and a New York Times best-selling author. He won more than three dozen first-place awards for journalism, and is the only person to win twice the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for commentary. His book on the 1996 presidential race, Show Time, became a New York Times best-seller.
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December 5, 2024
This is an excellent introduction into the political ideas of Antonio Gramsci, born on Sardinia in 1891 who spent the last eleven years of his life in prison, courtesy of Mussolini. He's most famous for his Prison Notebooks. What this book does so well is to make this prison writing understandable for the ordinary reader, as the notebooks have a fragmentary form that makes them difficult to comprehend.
The book also introduces the reader to the terms Gramsci used to make Marxism more understandable to those in Italy for example as he sought to explain the success of The Risorgimento where Italy became united into the country we'd recognise today. Gramsci knew what had to be put in place and when in order for a Socialist society to come into being and certain elements of this process were missing during the Risorgimento, leading to a weakness later exploited by The Fascists.
My favourite term of Gramsci's is 'Common Sense' which he used to denote the uncritical and partly unconscious way in which people perceive the world, even though he indicated that everyone was a philosopher. He also recognised that when political parties and their leaders are no longer recognised by their class as its expression, this crisis of representation means the field then becomes open for the activities of unknown forces represented by charismatic "men of destiny".
The book also introduces the reader to the terms Gramsci used to make Marxism more understandable to those in Italy for example as he sought to explain the success of The Risorgimento where Italy became united into the country we'd recognise today. Gramsci knew what had to be put in place and when in order for a Socialist society to come into being and certain elements of this process were missing during the Risorgimento, leading to a weakness later exploited by The Fascists.
My favourite term of Gramsci's is 'Common Sense' which he used to denote the uncritical and partly unconscious way in which people perceive the world, even though he indicated that everyone was a philosopher. He also recognised that when political parties and their leaders are no longer recognised by their class as its expression, this crisis of representation means the field then becomes open for the activities of unknown forces represented by charismatic "men of destiny".
August 5, 2021
برای آشنایی ابتدایی با اندیشه گرامشی یا برگشت و مرور این اندیشهها، کتاب بسیار کاربردی و قابل اعتمادی بود. برای من جزو کتابهایی قرار گرفت که به افرادی که میخوان خوندن گرامشی رو شروع کنن پیشنهاد میکنم.
خیلی فشرده و خیلی مقدماتی اندیشهها مرور میشن، در صورتی که بعد از کتاب "دولت و جامعه مدنی" خونده شه به فهم و اثبات مطالب اون کتاب کمک قابل توجهی میکنه.
خیلی فشرده و خیلی مقدماتی اندیشهها مرور میشن، در صورتی که بعد از کتاب "دولت و جامعه مدنی" خونده شه به فهم و اثبات مطالب اون کتاب کمک قابل توجهی میکنه.
March 1, 2025
Gramsci might just be the guy
August 6, 2024
راجر سیمون، ظاهراً خودش یه سوسیالیست ه که توی حزب کارگر انگلستان فعالیت پژوهشی میکرده و این کتاب رو برای کارگرها و آدمهای معمولی نوشته تا اونها رو آشنا کنه با این متفکر بزرگی که کمتر میشناختهاندش. انگلیسیها رو که دیدید لابد؟ خیلی زیان ساده و بدون پیچواپیچی رو سعی میکنند استفاده کنند. این کتاب هم همین ه: خیلی سرراست، واضح، شفاف و خوب نوشته؛ یعنی بدون ادابازیها و لفاظیهای روشنفکرانهای که این چپهای جدید دارند.
April 8, 2013
Recommended read in memory of Margaret Thatcher, as Simon uses the Thatcherite project to illustrate Gramsci's devastating insights - he was talking about the turning-aside of Communist revolution in Italy; she used the same techniques to divide the working people of the UK and buy off just enough of them to turn away real change. This was my first introduction to Gramsci, and it's a good one.
June 4, 2016
Buku ini mengupas secara sederhana mengenai pemikiran Gramsci yang jarang dibicarakan, buku ini juga mudah dipahami dimana konsep hegemoni yang merupakan titik sentral pemikiran Gramsci dikupas secara terpisah mulai dari proses, agen, dan post hegemoni nya.
Hanya saja kelemahan buku ini karena merupakan sebuah interpretasi dari Gramscian yang rawan bias.
Hanya saja kelemahan buku ini karena merupakan sebuah interpretasi dari Gramscian yang rawan bias.
July 28, 2011
Very capable summary of the main themes of Antonio Gramsci's writings, and a good historical context too. Gramsci was a great great man and some of what made him great comes across in this book. I'd be keen to read a good biography though.
March 16, 2020
This is a well-written and easily read book. But it fails in one major respect: it is much too exegetical. It seeks to clarify exactly what Gramsci meant in his disjointed and sketchy notebooks, retaining unclarity when his notes were unclear and favouring his original historical analysis over prospective applications. This is just not very interesting, in my opinion - Gramsci's concepts are interesting because of how they have been and can be used and interpreted, not for their initial, disconnected, historically situated form.
February 19, 2021
Buku ini saya baca sekitar 2014/2015. Bukunya bagus, terjemahannya mudah dimengerti. Dan gagasannya membantu kita memahami prinson notebooks meskipun dari sumber lain. Setelah punya buku Prison Notebook karya Gramsci saya jd lebih bersyukur sudah baca buku ini dulu. Karena ternyata terjemahan Prison Notebook memusingkan kepala. Sampai sekarang belum saya baca.
Terimakasih untuk penterjemah yg mau sangat membantu kami untuk membaca dengan kenikmatan yg hakiki karena bahasa yang gurih jadi sedah baca sambil ngopi.
Terimakasih untuk penterjemah yg mau sangat membantu kami untuk membaca dengan kenikmatan yg hakiki karena bahasa yang gurih jadi sedah baca sambil ngopi.
January 18, 2019
Muy buena síntesis de la obra de Gramsci, de gran ayuda para comprender la mastodóntica obra del teórico italiano. Recomendaría al lector acompañar este libro con algunos de los pasajes más destacados de Gramsci para poder tener una experiencia completa.
October 19, 2019
Passable book on Gramsci coming from a Euro-communist perspective.
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January 19, 2020Really good introduction to and clarification of complex ideas such as Hegemony. Helped me to understand some of the more abstract yet pertinent ideas surrounding modern politics.
October 12, 2009
Very readable intro to Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. I appreciated the definitions of terms and basic concepts Gramsci uses. Also Stuart Hall's introductory and concluding essay helped put Gramsci in context, i.e., how to apply Gramscian styles of thinking to discussions of politics in other places and other times.
November 23, 2013
life changing.
March 30, 2024
Concise, lucid introduction to interesting ideas.
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