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This review tackles three important works within the broad Gramscian scholarship that have recently been translated into English. The three books (originally one in Portuguese, one in Spanish, and ...

Ever since the full text of The German Ideology appeared in 1932 it has been subject to persistent misreading due to the fact that the idiosyncratic nature of this work—as merely a rough, unedited, and unfinished draft as well as a fiercely polemical text—has been neglected. As a result, the majority of scholars have tended to claim that Marx and Engels in this work propose an empiricist or positivistic conception of human history and society. A critical reading that is sensitive to the peculiar nature of this text reveals that these common interpretations are wholly ungrounded and that, on the contrary, the authors develop their polemic against the Young Hegelians from an outlook that is deeply indebted to the Hegelian philosophical legacy (even though paradoxically the latter espouses an absolute idealistic viewpoint).

This is a review of Scritti su Marx, a collection of unpublished texts by important Italian political theorist and philosopher of law Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004). Although the book may lack substance in that it contains mostly preparatory notes for university seminars and for essays and texts that were eventually published in finished form, it has the spark and liveliness that always seemed to characterize Bobbio's permanent critical engagement with Marx, Marxism, and Marxists. It is also a welcomed volume in that it provides a brief view of the inner workings of a classic author of modern political theory.

We review the volume Rethinking Gramsci, insisting on its merits on the grounds of the ample range of perspectives and themes touched upon from the rich work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. We discuss the different parts in which the book is divided, around specific topics concerning Gramsci's work. The multifaceted nature of Gramsci's work stands out through the different subjects treated in each part: among them, the relationship between politics and culture; his use of the notions of the subaltern, common sense, and hegemony; his contributions to political theory; his philosophical perspective; and the peculiar materiality of his prison writings.