To Live Is to Resist

The Life of Antonio Gramsci

To Live Is to Resist
Nadia Urbinati, Laura Marris, Jean-Yves Fretigne
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 328pg
11 Feb 2022 US
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9780226719092
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One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) has left an indelible mark on philosophy and critical theory. His innovative work on history, society, power, and the state has influenced several generations of readers and political activists, and even shaped important developments in postcolonial thought. But Gramsci' s thinking is scattered across the thousands of notebook pages he wrote while he was imprisoned by Italy' s fascist government from 1926 until shortly before his death. To guide readers through Gramsci' s life and works, historian Jean-Yves Fretigne offers To Live Is to Resist, an accessible, compelling, and deeply researched portrait of an extraordinary figure. Throughout the book, Fretigne emphasizes Gramsci' s quiet heroism and his unwavering commitment to political practice and resistance. Most powerfully, he shows how Gramsci never surrendered, even in conditions that stripped him of all power-except, of course, the power to think.
"If, as Primo Levi so presciently warned us in 1974, ' every age has its own fascism,' it follows that every age needs its own Gramsci. And Jean-Yves Fretigne has given us a Gramsci for our perilous times. This lucidly translated biography traces an intellectual, political, and personal drama that passes through Sardinia, Turin, the Stoics, Spinoza, Machiavelli, Vico, Leopardi, and Marx. We come to understand the origins and explicatory power of Gramscian terms such as ' subalternity,' ' hegemony,' ' organic intellectuals,' and ' pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. ' The epilogue poignantly renders the pathos of Gramsci' s last years. Most importantly, the reader will be inspired by a life and mind that insisted on a participatory and permanent resistance against the seemingly natural order of things. " * Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University * "Gramsci' s political, personal, and prison lives are the source of renewed debate in the neoliberal postcommunist era, with archival finds, speculative conjectures, and ideological polemics. This fine translation of To Live Is to Resist offers a concise narrative of Gramsci' s life as well as an informed and balanced account of the biographical controversies. " * Michael Denning, Yale University *
Jean-Yves Fretigne is maitre de conferences in the department of history at the University of Rouen in Normandy, France. He is the author of several books published in French and Italian. This is his first book published in English. Laura Marris is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her recent translations include Albert Camus' s The Plague, Geraldine Schwarz' s Those Who Forget, and Louis Guilloux' s Blood Dark.
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ISBN-13: 9780226719092
Published: 11 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 328

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