http://solimind.blogdrive.com/ The Mind Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:20:25 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. http://solimind.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:15:16 GMT Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci The Intellectuals ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First Published: Gramsci, Antonio. 1949. Gli intellettuali e l'organizzazione della cultura, Edited by F. Platone. Turin: Nuovo Universale Einaudi; Source: Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. “The Intellectuals”, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Translated and Edited by Q. Hoare and G. N. Smith. New York: International Publishers, page 3-23; Transcribed: Jason Sanford Greenberg. Introduction by Q. Hoare and G. N. Smith The central argument of Gramsci’s essay on the... (more) http://solimind.blogdrive.com/comments?id=5 http://solimind.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:14:13 GMT The Different Position of Urban and Rural-type Intellectuals Intellectuals of the urban type have grown up along with industry and are linked to its fortunes. Their function can be compared to that of subaltern officers in the army. They have no autonomous initiative in elaborating plans for construction. Their job is to articulate the relationship between the entrepreneur and the instrumental mass and to carry out the immediate execution of the production plan decided by the industrial general staff, controlling the elementary stages of work. On the whole the average urban intellectuals... (more) http://solimind.blogdrive.com/comments?id=4 http://solimind.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:11:11 GMT Footnotes 1 The Italian word here is “ceti” which does not carry quite the same connotations as “strata”, but which we have been forced to translate in that way for lack of alternatives. It should be noted that Gramsci tends, for reasons of censor-ship, to avoid using the word class in contexts where its Marxist overtones would be apparent, preferring (as for example in this sentence) the more neutral “social group”. The word “group”, however, is not always a euphemism for “class”, and to avoid ambiguity Gramsci uses the phrase “fundamental social group” when he wishes to emphasise the fact... (more) http://solimind.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://solimind.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:03:04 GMT "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." -Benjamin Franklin Russian-born novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand's inspiring moral defense of individualism and liberty Ayn Rand (1905-1982) won over millions to the the moral values of individualism and liberty which had fallen out of fashion more than a century ago. There continues to be a lively interest in her ideas. The 1997 release of Michael Paxton's documentary film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life was nominated for an Academy Award. In May 1999, Showtime aired The Passion of Ayn Rand starring Helen Mirren as Rand,... (more) http://solimind.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://solimind.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:07:58 GMT It's mind-boggling! It's...the mind! http://solimind.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1