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Due testi intitolati "La ricerca del principio educativo" e "Gli intellettuali", estratti dai Quaderni del carcere, raccontano l’idea filosofica e politica di Antonio Gramsci sui temi della scuola, dell’educazione e della cultura.
65 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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Antonio Gramsci
561 books981 followersAntonio 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.
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.
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March 3, 2022
Ottimi estratti dai Quaderni del carcere. A tratti si nota la differenza col giorno d'oggi, data l'appartenenza a un'altra epoca, ma appare comunque attuale.
Un evidente problema di questo libro è la pessima manifattura: si potrebbe chiudere un occhio sulla copertina troppo rigida, se non fosse per il fatto che le pagine sono simil-cartoncino (quindi difficili da sfogliare) e il testo è inutilmente grande (probabilmente per alzare il prezzo del prodotto); il taglio delle pagine, inoltre, avvicinandosi verso la fine del libro, appare errato, con margini irregolari e testo obliquo.
Per ultimo, mi sarebbe piaciuta una prefazione contenente una brevissima analisi dell'idea dell'autore originale riguardo al sistema scolastico, tema centrale del libro.
Un evidente problema di questo libro è la pessima manifattura: si potrebbe chiudere un occhio sulla copertina troppo rigida, se non fosse per il fatto che le pagine sono simil-cartoncino (quindi difficili da sfogliare) e il testo è inutilmente grande (probabilmente per alzare il prezzo del prodotto); il taglio delle pagine, inoltre, avvicinandosi verso la fine del libro, appare errato, con margini irregolari e testo obliquo.
Per ultimo, mi sarebbe piaciuta una prefazione contenente una brevissima analisi dell'idea dell'autore originale riguardo al sistema scolastico, tema centrale del libro.
November 1, 2021
Quite interesting thoughts about the organization of the education and the negative aspects of the school, but not game changing considerations.
December 5, 2025
A quasi un secolo di distanza ancora non siamo riusciti ad applicare molte delle interessantissime riflessioni di Gramsci. Libro ancora attualissimo.
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