1st Edition

Gramsci and the Colonial Question Sardinia, Subalternity, and the Global South

By Gianni Fresu Copyright 2026
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Gianni Fresu explores Gramsci’s formative experiences in Sardinia, a peripheral, peasant island marked by internal colonialism, and shows how these shaped his... Read more

Preface.  Part 1: The Colonial Question  1. The Sardinian roots of a universal thought  2. Internal colonialism and the emancipation of the subalterns  Part II: The Liberal Question  3. The incomplete universal  4. The deficit of liberalism in the Italian bourgeoisie  Part III: Questions of Political Theory  5. The renewal of Marxism.  Conclusions

Biography

Gianni Fresu, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cagliari, PhD in Philosophy from the University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bò’, was Professor of Political Philosophy at the Federal University of Uberlândia (MG/Brazil) from 2016 to 2023. He is a founding member of the International Gramsci Society Brasil, of which he was President from September 2019 to September 2022, director of the interdepartmental centre for Gramscian studies “GramsciLab” and of the Antonio Gramsci International Bibliographic Fund at the University of Cagliari. He is the author of several monographs and essays in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and English in the field of political philosophy and the history of political thought on the themes of the philosophy of praxis.