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Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 or 23 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.

Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. 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 Italian history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion and high and popular culture.

Publications[edit]

  • Lettere dal carcere, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 1), 1947, 260 pp; new ed., exp., eds. Sergio Caprioglio and Elsa Fubini, Torino: Einaudi, 1965, xlviii+856 pp; repr., Palermo: Sellerio, 1996. (Italian)
    • Dopisy z vězení, trans. Eliška Hlochová-Ripellino, Prague: Svoboda, 1949, 331 pp. (Czech)
    • Listy z väzenia, intro. Anna Magalová, Bratislava: Tatran, 1949, 302 pp. (Slovak)
    • Levelek a börtönből, ed. & intro. Palmiro Togliatti, trans. Irén Róna, Budapest: Szikra, 1949, 119 pp; new ed., exp., ed. Irén Komját, trans. György Gábor and Zoltán Zsámboki, Budapest: Kossuth 1974, 406 pp. (Hungarian)
    • Listy z więzienia, trans. Mieczysław Brahmer, Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1950, 330 pp. (Polish)
    • Pisma iz zatvora, afterw. Eros Sequi, trans. Stanko Škunca, Zagreb: Zora, 1951, 323 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • Lettres de prison, pref. Palmiro Togliatti, trans. Jean Noaro, Paris: Sociales, 1953, 310 pp. [1] (French)
    • Pisma iz ječe, intro. Ivan Regent, trans. Smiljan Samec, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1955, 355 pp. (Slovenian)
    • Briefe aus dem Kerker, trans. Harold Theile, Berlin: Dietz, 1956, 310 pp; repr., Leipzig: Reclam, 1962, 414 pp. (German)
    • Pisma ot zatvora, trans. Petar Dragoev, Sofia: Narodna kultura, 1956, 272 pp. (Bulgarian)
    • Izbrannye proizvedenija, 2. Pisma iz tjurmy: 1919-1920, ed. K.F. Miziano, trans. T.S. Eločevskoj and E.A. Šuht, Moscow: Izd. Inostrannoj literatury, 1957, 309 pp. (Russian)
    • Letra nga burgu, Tiranë: N. Sh. Botimeve "Naim Frashëri", 1960, 278 pp. (Albanian)
    • Lettres de prison, trans. Hélène Albani, Christian Depuyper and Georges Saro, Paris: Gallimard, 1971, 624 pp. (French)
    • Cartas desde la carcel, trans. Esther Benitez, Madrid: Cuadernos para el Dialogo, 1972, 295 pp. (Spanish)
    • Briefe aus dem Kerker, ed. & trans. Gerhard Roth, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1972, 101 pp. (German)
    • Γράμματα από τη φυλακή, trans. Φούλα Χατζιδάκη, Ηριδανός, 1972. (Greek)
    • Letters from Prison, ed., trans. & intro. Lynne Lawner, New York: Harper & Row, 1973, 292 pp; repr., London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. (English)
    • Politikk og kultur. Artikler, opptegnelser og brev fra fengslet , trans. Kjeld Østerling Nielsen, Oslo: Gyldendal, 1973, 211 pp. (Norwegian)
    • Filozofija istorije i politike: izbor iz dela Pisma iz zatvora, afterw. Jugana Stojanović, Belgrade: Slovo ljubve, 1980, 326 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • Brev från fängelset, ed., trans. & intro. Carl-Göran Ekerwald, Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1981, 268 pp; new ed., Stockholm: Ruin, and Hägersten: Tankekraft, 2007, 233 pp. (Swedish)
    • Gefängnisbriefe. Kritische Ausgabe, 4 vols., ed. Ursula Apitzsch et al., trans. Elisabeth Schweiger et al., forew. Mimma Paulesu Quercioli, intro. Ursula Apitzsch, Hamburg: Argument, and Frankfurt/Main: Cooperative, 1994-1995. (German)
    • Yu zhong shu jian (1926-1937) [狱中书简 (1926-1937)], trans. Shigang Tian, Beijing: Ren min chu ban she, 2008, 656 pp. (Chinese)
  • Quaderni del carcere, 6 vols., Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 2-7), 1948-1951; new. ed as Quaderni del carcere. Edizione critica, 4 vols., ed. Valentino Gerratana, Torino: Einaudi, 1977, PDF/1 (i-v), PDF/2 (vi-xi), PDF/3 (xii-xxix), PDF/4 (apparato critico); 3rd ed., Rome: Riuniti, 1996. (Italian)
    • Il materialismo storico e la filosofia di Benedetto Croce, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 2), 1948, xxii+299 pp. (Italian)
    • Gli intellettuali e l'organizzazione della cultura, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 3), 1948, xv+208 pp. (Italian)
    • Il Risorgimento, Torino: Einaudi, 1949, xiv+235 pp. (Italian)
      • El risorgimento, trans. Manlio Macri, Buenos Aires: Granica, 1974, 152 pp. (Spanish)
      • El risorgimento, trans. Stella Mastrangelo, México: Juan Pablos, 1980, 292 pp. (Spanish)
      • Cadernos do cárcere, 5: O Risorgimento. Notas sobre a história da Itália, trans. Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2001, EPUB. (Brazilian Portuguese)
      • El risorgimento, trans. & intro. Guillermo Davis, Buenos Aires: Las Cuarenta, 2008, 291 pp. (Spanish)
    • Note sul Machiavelli sulla politica e sullo stato moderno, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 5), 1949, xxii+372 pp. (Italian)
    • Letteratura e vita nazionale, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 6), 1950, xx+402 pp. (Italian)
      • O literature i iskusstve [О литературе и искусстве], ed. & forew. A. Lebedev, trans. E.Ya. Egerman and V.S. Bondarchuk, comm. K. Dolgov and G. Dubov, Moscow: Progress, 1967, 263 pp. (Russian)
      • Literatura e vida nacional, trans. Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1978, 273 pp; rev.ed. as Cadernos do cárcere, 6: Literatura. Folclore. Gramática, trans. Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2002, EPUB. (Brazilian Portuguese)
      • Literatura y vida nacional, México: Juan Pablos, 1986, 336 pp. (Spanish)
    • Passato e presente, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 7), 1951, xviii+274 pp. (Italian)
    • Izbrannye proizvedenija, 3. Tyuremnye tetradi, trans. V.S. Bondarchuk, E.Ya. Egerman and I.B. Levin, Moscow: Izd. Inostrannoj literatury, 1959, 564 pp. (Russian)
    • Sešity z vězení, eds. Jaroslav Pokorný and Mario Cervi, trans. & afterw. Jaroslav Pokorný, Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1959, 143 pp. Selections from Letteratura e vita nazionale, Risorgimento and Gli intelletuali e l'organizzazione della cultura. (Czech)
    • Filozófiai írások, ed. Tibor Huszár, trans. Ervin Rozsnyai, Budapest: Kossuth, 1970, 402 pp. (Hungarian)
    • Selections from the Prison Notebooks, eds. & trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1971, xcvi+483 pp, EPUB; New York: International Publishers, 1971, xcvi+483 pp. (English)
    • La política y el estado moderno, trans. Jordi Solé-Tura, Barcelona: Península, 1971, 209 pp. Selections from Il materialismo storico and Note sul Machiavelli. (Spanish)
    • Ιστορικός Υλισμός. Τετράδια της φυλακής I, trans. Τίτος Μυλωνόπουλος, Οδυσσέας, 1973. (Greek)
    • Umenie a národ, ed. & trans. František Hruška, intro. Ján Skamla, Bratislava: Tatran, 1974, 159 pp. Selections from Risorgimento and Letteratura e vita nazionale. Review: Königsmark (Česká literatura). (Slovak)
    • O državi, ed., trans. & forew. Ivo Petrinović, Belgrade: Radnička štampa, 1979, 232 pp. Selections from L'ordine nuovo, Il materialismo storico and Note sul Machiavelli. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • Cuadernos de la cárcel, 6 vols., México: Era, 1981ff, 451 & 518 & 505 & 477 & 557 & 613 pp, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3 PDF/4, PDF/5, PDF/6. Trans. of Edizione critica. (Spanish)
    • Yu zhong zha ji [狱中札记], trans. Xu Bao, Beijing: Ren min chu ban she, 1983, 496 pp. Trans. of Tyuremnye tetradi. (Chinese)
    • Hapishane Defterleri, Onur, 1986, 180 pp. (Turkish)
    • The Prison Notebooks, 3 vols., ed. & intro. Joseph A. Buttigieg, trans. Joseph A. Buttigieg and Antonio Callari, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3, PDF/3. (English)
    • Gefängnis Hefte, 6 vols., eds. Klaus Bochmann and Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Hamburg: Argument, 1991-1994. (German)
    • Tyuremnye tetradi [Тюремные тетради], 3 vols., Moscow: Politizdat, 1991. (Russian)
    • Nirbachita racanasangraha, eds. & trans. Sourin Bhattacharya and Samik Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta: Pearl, 1991, 362 pp. Trans. from Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971). (Bengali)
    • Zeszyty filozoficzne, ed., intro. & comm. Sław Krzemień-Ojak, trans. Barbara Sieroszewska and Joanna Szymanowska, Warsaw: Wydawnicto naukowe PWN, 1991, xlv+566 pp. (Polish)
    • Yu zhong zha ji [狱中札记], Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2000, 392 pp. Trans. of Selections from the Prison Notebooks. (Chinese)
    • Hapishane Defterleri, Kalkedon, 2011-2012, 704 & 546 & 538 & 463 pp, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3, PDF/4. (Turkish)
    • Guerre de mouvement et guerre de position, ed. Razmig Keucheyan, Paris: La Fabrique, 2012, 338 pp. (French)
    • Politisk teori. Udrag fra Fengselsopptegnelsene, Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2020, 155 pp. (Norwegian)
  • L'albero del riccio, intro. & notes Giuseppe Ravegnani, ills. Felicita Frai, Milan: Milano-sera, 1948, 226 pp. (Italian)
    • Çocuklarıma mektuplar: Puşkin, Ravegnani, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoly, Turgenyev, Saintien ve Gorki'nin masallarıyla, trans. Meral and Cemal Erez, Istanbul: Belge Yayınları, 1979, 132 pp. (Turkish)
    • Chichi kara kodomotachi e [父から子どもたちへ], trans. Watanabe Reiko, Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1983, 209 pp. (Japanese)
    • L'arbre du hérisson, intro. & trans. Roger Salomon, ills. Franc̜oise Jacque, Paris: Messidor/La Farandole, 1987, 89 pp. (French)
    • Drzewo jeży: listy, bajki, opowiadania, intro. Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski, trans. Lidia Wanda Gall, ills. Tomasz Bogacki, Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1987, 103 pp. (Polish)
    • El árbol del erizo, trans. Angelina Gatell, ills. Laura Trovalusci, Barcelona: La Galera, 1989, 157 pp. (Spanish)
  • L'ordine nuovo. 1919-1920, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 9), 1954, 499 pp. (Italian)
    • Izbrannye proizvedenija, 1. Ordine nuovo, 1919-1920, ed. K.F. Miziano, trans. V.G. Antonov and K.G. Cholodkovskij, Moscow: Izd. Inostrannoj literatury, 1957, 508 pp. (Russian)
  • La questione meridionale, eds. Franco De Felice and Valentino Parlato, Rome: Riuniti, 1957, 104 pp; repr., 1995, 72 pp. (Italian)
    • A questão meridional, trans. Carlo Nelson Coutinho and Marco Aurelio Nogueira, Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1987, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Scritti giovanili. 1914-1918, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 8), 1958, xix+392 pp. (Italian)
    • Ifjukori irások, 1914-1926, ed. Szalai Zoltán, trans. Mária Farkas et al., Budapest: MKKE Társadalomelméleti Kollégium, 1987, v+184 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Sotto la mole. 1916-1920, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 10), 1960, xviii+509 pp. (Italian)
  • Elementi di politica, ed. & notes Mario Spinella, Rome: Riuniti, 1964, 136 pp. (Italian)
    • Základy politiky, forew. Mario Spinella, trans. Jaroslav Bezděk, Prague: Mladá fronta, 1967, 136 pp. (Czech)
    • Pequeña antología política, trans. Juan Ramón Capella, Barcelona: Fontanella, 1974, 171 pp. (Spanish)
  • Socialismo e fascismo: l'ordine nuovo. 1921-1922, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 11), 1966, xviii+554 pp. (Italian)
  • La costruzione del partito comunista. 1923-1926, pref. Elsa Fubini, Torino: Einaudi (Opere di Antonio Gramsci, 12), 1971, xv+565 pp. (Italian)
  • L'alternativa pedagogica, Firenze: La nuova Italia, 1972. (Italian)
    • Válaszút a pedagógiában: tanulmányok, ed. & notes Mario Alighiero Manacorda, trans. Imréné Bólyai, Budapest: Akadémiai, 1979, 274 pp. (Hungarian)
    • Formirovanie cheloveka: zapiski o pedagogike, Moscow: Pedagogika, 1983, 223 pp. (Russian)
  • Scritti politici, 3 vols., ed. Paolo Spriano, 1973. (Italian)
    • La guerra, la rivoluzione russa e i nuovi problemi del socialismo italiano, 1916-1919, Rome: Riuniti, 1973, 273 pp. (Italian)
    • Il Biennio rosso, la crisi del socialismo e la nascita del Partito comunista, 1919-1921, Rome: Riuniti, 1973, 273 pp. (Italian)
    • Il nuovo partito della classe operaia e il suo programma: la lotta contro il fascismo, 1921-1926, Rome: Riuniti, 1973, 314 pp. (Italian)
    • Écrits politiques, 3 vols., ed., notes & intro. Robert Paris, trans. Marie G. Martin, Paris: Gallimard, 1974-1980, 461 & 379 & 441 pp. (French)
    • Escritos políticos, 4 vols., Seara Nova, 1976-1978, 179 & 188 & 71 & 121 pp, PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3, PDF/4. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Selections from Political Writings, 1910-1920, 1921-1926, 2 vols., ed. Quintin Hoare, trans. John Mathews, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977; New York: International Publishers, 1977. (English)
    • Πολιτικά Κείμενα, trans. Μυρσίνη Ζορμπά, Οδυσσέας, 1979. (Greek)
    • Escritos politicos, 1917-1933, Siglo XXI, 1981. (Spanish)
    • Izbor političnih spisov, 1914-1926, forew. Boris Muževič, trans. Devana Jovan and Boris Muževič, Ljubljana: Komunist, 1982, 175 pp. (Slovenian)
    • Politikai írások, 1916-1926, ed. Tibor Szabó, trans. Mária Farkas et al., Budapest: Kossuth, 1985, 277 pp. (Hungarian)

Selected writings[edit]

  • The Modern Prince, and Other Writings, trans. Louis Marks, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1957, 192 pp; New York: International Publishers, 1957. (English)
    • Modern Prens, Birey ve Toplum Yayıncılık, 1984. (Turkish)
  • Oeuvres choisies, trans. & notes Gilbert Moget and Armand Monjo, intro. Georges Cogniot, Paris: Sociales, 1959, 539 pp. (French)
    • Guramushi senshū [グラムシ選集], 6 vols., eds. Isao Yamazaki, Hisagi Dai and Michio Fujisawa, Tokyo: Gōdō Shuppansha, 1961-1965. (Japanese)
  • Izabrana dela, forew. Jože and Marija Vilfan, trans. Neda Popović, Belgrade: Kultura, 1959, 379 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Pisma wybrane, 2 vols., intro. Palmiro Togliatti, trans. Barbara Sieroszewska, Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, 1961, lix+741 & 700 pp. (Polish)
  • Marxizmus, kultúra, művészet: válogatott írások, ed. Zoltán Rózsa, forew. & notes Géza Sallay, trans. Miklós Fogarasi et al., Budapest: Kossuth, 1965, 377 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Gramsci: présentation, choix de textes, biographie, bibliographie, ed. Jacques Texier, Paris: Seghers, 1966, 191 pp. (French)
  • En kollektiv intellektuell, ed. & intro. René Coeckelberghs, trans. Stig Herlitz, Uddevalla: Bo Cavefors, 1967, 299 pp. (Swedish)
  • Izbrana dela, forew. Anton Žun, trans. Anton Žun, Rada Jelinčič and Maks Veselko, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1974, 715 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Marxismo e letteratura, trans. Giuliano Manacorda, Rome: Riuniti, 1975, 495 pp.
    • Marxismus und Literatur. Ideologie, Alltag, Literatur, ed. & trans. Sabine Kebir, Hamburg: VSA, 1983, 350 pp. (German)
    • Marksizam i književnost, ed. & forew. Vjekoslav Mikecin, trans. Dubravka Zorić, Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 1984, 206 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • Kŭramsi wa hamkke ingnŭn munhwa : taejung munhwa ŏnŏhak chŏnŏllijŭm, trans. Hyŏng-jun Cho, Seoul: Sae Mulkyŏl, 1992, 305 pp. (Korean)
  • Za kulturata, literaturata i izkustvoto, pref. Atanas Stojkov, Sofia: Nauka i izjustvo, 1976, 310 pp. (Bulgarian)
  • Odbrani tekstovi, ed. Jonče Josifovski, trans. Slavko Mangovski and Šerefedin Mustafa, Skopje: Makedonska knjiga, 1978, 231 pp. (Macedonian)
  • Civilna družba in država: izbor Gramscijevih besedil in zapisov o njem, ed. & intro. Adolf Bibič, trans. Neda Pagon-Brglez, Ljubljana: Komunist, 1987, 277 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Spoločnosť, politika, filozofia, intro. František Novosad, Bratislava: Pravda, 1988, 488 pp. (Slovak)
  • Iskusstvo i politika [Искусство и политика], 2 vols., intro. K.M. Dolgov, ed. R.I. Kholodovsky, trans. T.Z. Klebanova et al., comm. P.M. Kudiukin, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1991, 431 & 335 pp. Trans. of L'arte e la politica. (Russian)
  • Pre-Prison Writings, ed. Richard Bellamy, trans. Virginia Cox, Cambridge University Press, 1994, lii+350 pp. (English)
  • Scritti scelti, ed. & intro. Marco Gervasoni, Milan: BUR, 2007. (Italian)

Literature[edit]

  • Walter L. Adamson, "Gramsci and the Politics of Civil Society", Praxis International 3+4, 1987, pp 320-­339.
    • "Gramsci és a civil társadalom politikája", in Ellenszélben: Gramsci és Lukács, ed. Tibor Szabó, Szeged: Szegedi Lukács Kör, 1993, pp 85-100. (Hungarian)

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