Scritti gramsciani, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, a cura di A. Bianchi e G. Liguori

Abstract

Scritti gramsciani is a collection of nine essays written by the political scientist and communist militant Carlos Nelson Coutinho at different times in his life and concerning an attempt to deepen Gramscian categories and apply them to the political and historical reality of Brazil. The essays that make up the volume were written by the author over a period of time spanning around thirty years and were first published in Italy between 1985 and 2012. More than a decade after the author’s death, these writings are here republished in a new edition, which takes on the guise of a “tribute by the International Gramsci Society to a scholar [...] who was also one of its most important exponents”, but which at the same time constitutes a renewed call for reflection on the applicability of the Sardinian thinker’s categories “beyond the time and space that were Gramsci’s own”.