Newsletter - International Gramsci Society

Anne Showstack Sassoon (ed.), Approaches to Gramsci (London: Writers & Readers Co-op
Society, 1982)—an interesting collection of essays on various aspects of Gramsci’s work
and including a short illustrated account of his life.
GRAMSCI’S OWN WRITINGS:
Antonio Gramsci: Selections From Political Writings 1910-1920, ed. Q. Hoare (London:
Lawrence & Wishart, 1977)
Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Political Writings 1921-1926, ed. Q. Hoare (London:
Lawrence and Wishart, 1978)
Antonio Gramsci: Selections From Cultural Writings, ed. David Forgacs and G. Nowell-Smith
(London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1985)
Antonio Gramsci, Letters From Prison, 2 vols., ed. Frank Rosengarten (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1994)—this is the first complete edition of Gramsci’s letters in English.
Earlier shorter selections are: Letters From Prison, ed. Lynn Lawner (New York: Harper &
Row, 1973) and Gramsci’s Prison Letters, ed. Hamish Henderson (London: Zwan, 1988).
BIOGRAPHIES:
Giuseppe Fiori, Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary (London: Verso, 1990)—first
published in Italian in 1965, a straightforward life that draws heavily on the reminiscences
of those who knew Gramsci.
Alatair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography (London: Merlin
Press, 1977)—explores in considerable detail Gramsci’s intellectual and political
development and how Gramsci should be located within the history of Italian communism
(Gramsci’s role in the Turin factory occupations is discussed at length). Includes a detailed
account of Gramsci’s childhood in Sardinia.
Dante Germino, Antonio Gramsci: Architect of a New Politics (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1990).
CLASS TOPICS AND READINGS:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Gramsci and Marx
Selections from the Prison Notebooks, “Introduction” pp. xvii-xcv.
Eric Hobsbawm, “Gramsci and Marxist Political Theory” in A. Showstack Sassoon (ed.),
Approaches to Gramsci, pp. 20-36.
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