The Southern Question (Via Folios, 5) - Softcover

Gramsci, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599540975 ISBN 13: 9781599540979

Publisher: Bordighera Press, 2015

Synopsis

Cultural Writing. Social Criticism. Translated from the Italian with an introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio. "It is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci's thought than his essay on the 'Southern Question.' Written on the eve of Gramsci's arrest and imprisonment, this essay anticipates many of the major issues treated in the Prison Notebooks. Indeed, Gramsci himself initially conceived of his project of study and research in prison as an elaboration of the views he had first sketched in the 'Southern Question' essay. Verdicchio's edition/translation of this valuable work does much more than give Anglophone readers access to the text. The introduction, the annotations, and the supplementary materials he provides enable the reader to place Gramsci's essay firmly within the context in which it was composed and at the same time to appreciate the poignancy of its insights for the present time."—Joseph Buttigieg, editor and translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

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About the Author

Antonio Gramsci is one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party (1921), the founder of the party newspaper L’Unità and of L’Ordine Nuovo (The New Order), the theoretical and political organ of the socialist left in Turin (1919). He died in 1936, after ten years of incarceration under Fascism. Pasquale Verdicchio is a poet, translator, and essay writer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599540975
• ISBN 13: 9781599540979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72