Gramsci on Civil Society

Abstract

In order to avoid cumbersome footnotes, I have indicated in the text the titles of Gramsci's articles from which I quote and have provided the date of publication of the newspaper in which they first appeared. These articles are easy to locate in the following volumes of the critical edition of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, where they are reproduced in chronological order: Cronache torinesi: 1913-1917, ed. S. Caprioglio (Turin: Einaudi, 1980); La citta futura: 1917-1918, ed. S. Caprioglio (Turin: Einaudi, 1982); //II nostro Marx: 1918-1919, ed. S. Caprioglio (Turin: Einaudi, 1984); L'Ordine Nuovo: 1919-1920, ed. V. Gerratana and A. Santucci (Turin: Einaudi, 1987); Socialismo e fascismo. L'Ordine Nuovo: 1912-1922 (Turin: Einaudi, 1966); and La costruzione del Partito comunista: 1923-1926 (Turin: Einaudi, 1971). Gramsci's letters are also chronologically ordered and hence easy to locate, in either the Italian or the (more complete) English-language critical edition-see Lettere dal carcere, ed. E. Fubini and S. Caprioglio (Turin: Einaudi, 1965); and Letters from Prison, 2 vols., ed. F. Rosengarten (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). For the extracts from the Prison Notebooks, I have provided the pertinent notebook and section numbers that would enable the reader to locate them quickly in the Italian critical edition, Quaderni del carcere, 4 vols., ed. V. Gerratana (Turin: Einaudi, 1975), and, in the case of the first two notebooks, in Prison Notebooks, vol. 1, ed. J. A. Buttigieg (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).