Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Cultural Writings

Marxism & Socialism

One of the world’s most influential cultural critics, Gramsci’s writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that art is not the product of “men of genius” but rather particular historical and social contexts, Gramsci remains one of the most widely read theorists of modern culture.

About the author

Antonio Gramsci was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party, and spent most of his adult life imprisoned by Mussolini. After his death and the subsequent publication of his Prison Notebooks he came to be known as one of the twentieth century’s foremost cultural critics.

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