Gramsci says we are not simply prisoners of our common sense. He wants to recognize and break down the division between mental and manual labor. His educational philosophy often seems very conservative in our terms, because he has this sense of necessity for a kind of forming activity.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview.
Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks
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