title: Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (Volume 1)
author: Antonio Gramsci
description: While in prison, Gramsci wrote a series of notebooks covering an extraordinarily wide range of issues; they are his principal achievement. Written without thought of publication, the pages of Gramsci's notebooks record and reveal this interests in history and historiography, the role of intellectuals in society, political theory, philosophy, Americanism and Fordism, religion, education, cultural analysis, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
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  The Routledge Guidebook to Gramsci’s _Prison Notebooks_
  
  
  Gramsci’s _Prison Notebooks_ are one of the most important and original
  sources of modern political philosophy, but they present great difficulties to
  the reader. Not originally intended for publication, their fragmentary
  character and their often cryptic language can mystify readers, leading to
  misinterpretation of the text. _The Routledge Guidebook to Gramsci’s_ Prison
  Notebooks provides readers with the historical background, textual analysis
  and other relevant information needed for a greater understanding and
  appreciation of this classic text. This guidebook:
  
  
  • Explains the arguments presented by Gramsci in a clear and straightforward
  way, analysing the key concepts of the notebooks
  
  
  • Situates Gramsci’s ideas in the context of his own time, and in the history
  of political thought, demonstrating the innovation and originality of the
  