Gramsci Çağı

Described as the most comprehensive and illuminating philosophical work ever written on Gramsci, The Age of Gramsci covers a number of complex issues inherited from this great revolutionary - the functioning and dimensions of hegemony, the role and nature of political action, the relations between theory and practice, and civil society and the state. evaluates with a new and exciting insight. The present study, which is an extremely meticulous analysis of the Prison Notebooks, completely overturns L. Althusser's and P. Anderson's interpretations of Gramsci, making it impossible for us to read Gramsci's work solely through their lens. It calls for Marxism to undertake Gramsci's necessarily unfinished project in the "Gramsci Age" we are currently living in. This is a project of evaluating the intellectual practices organically connected to the working class movement, organizing a new intellectual order, disseminating democratic pedagogy practices and building organizational structures suitable for proliferation, in short, developing a philosophy of praxis that renews the entire way of understanding philosophy from top to bottom. Disseminating an alternative understanding of the world and paving the way for another philosophical practice capable of reconstructing philosophy stands before us as an urgent and concrete political task in the struggle to build a movement against capitalist relations of exploitation and domination. It is this duty that makes Gramsci modern, up-to-date and valid.

Thomas's Gramsci is exactly the kind of work we need in this age of economic and geopolitical crises that we are in and which bears some similarities with the period in which Gramsci lived. Thomas, who examines the Prison Notebooks and the literature about Gramsci with a critical perspective, does not settle for purely academic interpretation but puts Gramsci in an active dialogue with contemporary radical thought in order to contribute to the effort to rebuild revolutionary Marxism. -Alex Callinicos
Considering the scope, richness and originality of this book, which presents Gramsci as a "living classic" and an indispensable writer for understanding modernity, I am sure that it will constitute a milestone in Gramsci studies and make a significant contribution to political theory/political philosophy discussions.
Stathis Kouvelakis



Number of Pages: 614

Year of Printing: 2012


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

Number of Pages: 614

First Publication Year: 2012

Language: Turkish