Prison Notebooks (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) were a series of notebooks by Antonio Gramsci smuggled out of prison in the 1930s. The were not published until the 1950s. Gramsci is seen by many as one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century, in particular as a key thinker in the development of Western Marxism. He wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. These writings, known as the Prison Notebooks, contain Gramsci's tracing of Italian history and nationalism, as well as some ideas in Marxist theory, critical theory and educational theory associated with his name, such as: Cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the capitalist state. The need for popular workers' education to encourage development of intellectuals from the working class.