{"product_id":"subaltern-social-groups-9780231190398","title":"Subaltern Social Groups","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subaltern defined Antonio Gramsci's work. In this volume, Joseph A. Buttigieg's final gift to the world of Gramsci, devotedly assembled and fleshed out by his former student Marcus E. Green, we at last have the full view of how that definition came into being. A treasure. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of \"Can the Subaltern Speak?\"\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Gramsci's \u003ci\u003ePrison Notebooks \u003c\/i\u003ehave become a kind of Marxist oracle, a well-spring of pithy passages deployed in the service of interminable debates, especially around questions of culture, civil society, the state, history, and the role of intellectuals. On first glance, Gramsci’s 3,000 pages of research, reflections, and analyses may appear random, disordered, even coded. But serious Gramsci scholars know better, and there are few as serious as the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. Their painstaking and judicious reconstruction of Gramsci's writings on subaltern groups raises the bar, revealing with greater clarity the systematic development of his ideas on history, class struggles, folk culture, the state, the dynamic and contingent character of social movements, and the limits of a utopian imagination. This volume challenges us all to stop plumbing Gramsci’s notebooks for jewels and take the work and its context as a whole. Our scholarship and our movements will benefit. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButtigieg and Green have done a remarkable job in making available to the English-speaking world this groundbreaking text of the leading Marxist thinker of the twentieth century. -- Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading for all those interested in Gramsci. By skillfully combining a thematic with a philological approach and including relevant notes from the other prison notebooks, the editors reveal the profoundly historical nature of their author’s thought. History is never shoehorned into predetermined boxes. Gramsci’s theoretical concepts emerge out of history itself. -- Kate Crehan, author of \u003ci\u003eGramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eEditor’s Notes \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Marcus E. Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrison Notebooks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotebook 25 (1934): On the Margins of History (The History of Subaltern Social Groups) \u003cbr\u003eFirst Draft Notes of Notebook 25\u003cbr\u003eSubaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotebook 25 (1934): Description of the Manuscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes to the Text: Notebook 25\u003cbr\u003eNotes to the Text: First Draft Notes of Notebook 25\u003cbr\u003eNotes to the Text: Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special Notebooks\u003cbr\u003eSequence of Notes by Title or Opening Phrase\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400337105239,"sku":"9780231190398","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231190398.jpg?v=1730470426","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/subaltern-social-groups-9780231190398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}