Review of "Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives" by Kate Crehan (Duke University Press)

Abstract

In Gramsci's Common Sense, Kate Crehan offers us another excellent book, this time focused expressly on three important and often not well or fully understood categories in Gramsci's work: 'subalterns,' 'intellectuals,' and 'common sense.' Crehan succeeds in producing a smooth and seamless discussion of some of Gramsci’s most popular, important, and, also, misinterpreted concepts poising each for use in analysis and interpretation.

Keywords

• antonio gramsci
• inequality
• intellectual
• subaltern