Table of Contents

Preface Prison Notebooks Notebooks 3 (1930) Notebooks 4 (1930-1932) Notebooks 5 (1930-1932) Notes Notebook 3: Description of the Manuscript Notes to the Text Notebook 4: Description of the Manuscript Notes to the Text Notebook 5: Description of the Manuscript Notes to the Text Sequence of Notes by Title or Opening Phrase Name Index

Promotional Information

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have long been among the most remarkable documents of Western political thought. [Columbia edition] is a poignant record of his thoughts from a Fascist prison cell, which adds a human touch to a key political figure. -- Terry Eagleton This is the first time ever that Gramsci's extraordinary "Prison Notebooks" are available in English as he wrote them in Italian, in their fragmentary brilliance and their disconcertingly restless, unorthodox probity. Joseph Buttigieg's work is a monument of scholarship and of supple, deepy sensitive translation. When his work is completed in subsequent volumes, a remarkable monument of human courage and intellectual resourcefulness will stand forth as never before. -- Edward W. Said Until Joseph A. Buttigieg's meticulous translation and critical attention to Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, this invaluable text, a testimony to the most emancipatory thinking of our time, was available to English readers only in an artificially contrived form. Now Buttigieg's monumental and magesterial work is available in paperback. Scholars, teachers, students, activists, general readers--rejoice! -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Prison Notebooks is one of the fundamental texts of modern thought. Politics, cultural studies, philosophy, history, the dialectic--everything is here. Buttigieg's translation is a superb achievement. -- Fredric Jameson

About the Author

Joseph A. Buttigieg is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and a fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective and has edited or coedited a number of volumes, including The Legacy of Antonio Gramsci, Criticism Without Boundaries, Gramsci and Education, and European Christian Democracy.

Reviews

Altogether a tremendous achievement... This volume provides us with an immediate sense of the scale and diversity of Gramsci's project. -- Richard Bellamy Times Literary Supplement An impressive and welcome commencement to the translation of one of the great intellectual legacies of the twentieth century...in Gramsci, Marxism acquires the founder of a proletarian intellectual tradition that is likely to continue as long as society has use for democracy. -- William Hartley Italian Quarterly