Politics and literature: Antonio Gramsci and Italian criticism

Abstract

With Politics and literature: Antonio Gramsci and Italian criticism, Daniela Mussi carries out an extremely relevant operation for Gramscian studies. More than ever, in fact, it is necessary to rescue Gramsci from pamphleteer mistakes. Many of the books on Gramsci that have gained greater visibility in recent years, especially in Italy, are characterized by an instrumental use of Gramsci in the context of current controversies. Two examples: while Franco Lo Piparo's successful volume I due carceri di Gramsci (2012) turns more against Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party than in favor of a rigorous analysis of Gramscian thought , the book Antonio Gramsci (2015) by Diego Fusaro, a philosopher with considerable success in the Italian mass media, proposes a kind of Gramsci, an anti-euro and small homeland identity thinker.