Category Archives: Antonio Gramsci

Books written by French professors while prisoners of war in World War II, and the Université de Captivité in Oflag XVII-A

Posted on September 28, 2025 by stuartelden

There are many famous books written in prison, from Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy to Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Socrates’ final words in prison are dramatized by Plato in the Crito. The Marquis de Sade wrote some of his books in prison, and Miguel … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025 A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci In June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S'”

Posted on April 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S’“ A post exploring the generational links between Merrifield, David Harvey, Piero Sraffa and Antonio Gramsci. I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci’

Posted on April 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci‘ Gramsci saw the whole of the Italian “South” as a kind of goblin, as a character who got and keeps getting a bad rap, like Rumpelstiltskin. In late 1926, a month or so prior … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin – on the notebooks and his translations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales

Posted on February 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin It’s easy to miss the Fondazione Gramsci, tucked away off the street in a little building along via Sebino, at number 43A, in Rome’s Trieste neighborhood. Its glass door entrance lies at the end of a … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated … Continue reading →

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Antonio Gramsci, Arlette Farge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos on sessions on John Bellamy Foster, Gramsci and Althusser

Posted on November 13, 2021 by stuartelden

Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos of sessions on Althusser, Gramsci and John Bellamy Foster’s book. Lots more on the Haymarket channel.

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Books received – Dumézil, Brossat and Lorenzini, Bene and Deleuze, Kristeva, de Libera, Morton, Gramsci

Posted on October 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Some recently received books, including the English and Spanish versions of Adam David Morton, Revolution and State in Modern Mexico (sent by Adam), the new collection Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault, edited by Alain Brossat and Daniele … Continue reading →

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Books received – Federici, Kitchin, Morton, Morton & Bieler, Vincent, Caillois, Gamble, Garrett

Posted on September 13, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Bristol University Press and one pre-ordered from Polity, the new edition of Silvia Federici’s modern classic, Caliban and the Witch and two books from Adam David Morton, which he kindly sent to … Continue reading →

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Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green, Columbia University Press, 2021 Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in … Continue reading →

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