Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an Italian political thinker and journalist whose writings transformed debates about culture, power, intellectuals, and social change. Prison Notebooks is the central route into the work produced during his imprisonment, but its breadth makes a selected volume useful for orientation. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci brings major lines of inquiry together. Selections from Cultural Writings concentrates attention on literature, language, and cultural life. Letters from Prison offers a different register, placing intellectual labour beside illness, family, and confinement. A practical route moves from the selected notebooks to the cultural writings, then uses the letters to recover the human conditions of that work. A Great and Terrible World The Pre-prison Letters 1908-1926 adds the earlier political and personal context that the prison texts alone cannot provide.