Gramsci, No Longer a Communist?
A Review of I Due Carceri di Gramsci, L’Enigma del Quaderno and Il Professor Gramsci e Wittgenstein by Franco Lo Piparo
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In his last three books, Franco Lo Piparo (a philosopher of language who teaches in Palermo) presents fresh and contested interpretations of the last part of Gramsci’s life. In his view, the Sardinian thinker was distancing himself from the Communist world, not just from the Soviet Union. In the first part of the review-essay I will introduce the three books; in the second part I will then highlight some passages in the books that present Gramsci as a non-Communist thinker; in the final part, I will discuss the comparative analysis of Wittgenstein and Gramsci that the author traces in his last book. I believe that while this can open up new avenues, it is ultimately based on unconvincing and/or vague arguments.
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Gramsci, No Longer a Communist?
A Review of I Due Carceri di Gramsci, L’Enigma del Quaderno and Il Professor Gramsci e Wittgenstein by Franco Lo Piparo
In: Historical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Luca Peretti in
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Abstract
In his last three books, Franco Lo Piparo (a philosopher of language who teaches in Palermo) presents fresh and contested interpretations of the last part of Gramsci’s life. In his view, the Sardinian thinker was distancing himself from the Communist world, not just from the Soviet Union. In the first part of the review-essay I will introduce the three books; in the second part I will then highlight some passages in the books that present Gramsci as a non-Communist thinker; in the final part, I will discuss the comparative analysis of Wittgenstein and Gramsci that the author traces in his last book. I believe that while this can open up new avenues, it is ultimately based on unconvincing and/or vague arguments.
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| Full Text Views | 619 | 71 | 13 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 650 | 59 | 13 |