Alastair Davidson

Gramsci in Australia

by Alastair Davidson Edited by Peter Beilharz

ISBN: 9798888905722

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Description

A new collection of essays from a pioneer of global Gramsci studies, spanning from 1968 to the present.

This volume collects Alastair Davidson’s work from various difficult to access sources covering such diverse topics as the sources: Marx, Lenin, Machiavelli, Labriola and Croce; the party and workers’ councils, through to the question of what is living and what is dead in the legacy of Gramsci, cultural studies and subalternality, uneven development and globalization, human rights and the peasantry, literature and culture.

Author Bios

Alastair Davidson, Ph.D. (1966), Australian National University, is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Monash University. He has spent much of his life in Italy and explored the Sardinian background in some detail, as well as researched at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. He is the author of twenty books and hundreds of articles including The Theory and Practice of Italian Communism (Merlin Press, 1982); with Steve Wright eds., ‘Never Give In’ The Italian Resistance and Politics (Peter Lang, 1998); The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle for Universal Human Rights (Springer, 2012); Migration in the Age of Genocide: Law, Forgiveness and Revenge (Springer, 2015).

More Info

ISBN: 9798888905722

Publication date: December 16, 2025

Series

Part of the Historical Materialism series.

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