Manuel Sacristán made in this Anthology a selection of the most prominent and important texts that make up the Gramscian corpus from the first formative years of Antonio Gramsci until his own death in 1937. For the construction of this work, Sacristán, possibly the most prominent Spanish intellectual of lefts of the second half of the twentieth century, it follows two rules: first, not to separate Gramsci's "personal" texts completely from public texts, but to consider that chronology is a stronger reason for homogeneity than the literary genre; and second, to accentuate the theme in which the unity of the "work" is carried out, which is none other than political literature.
An essential figure of Western Marxist thought, Antonio Gramsci had a decisive influence on almost all the critical thinking of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. In Gramsci the ph...read more
