Paggi, Leonardo
Dear John, Where Is the World We Lost?
Special Issue: Gramsci Revisited. Essays in Memory of John M. Cammett
is part of Journal of Modern Italian Studies
, 16
, 2
, March, 2011
, pp. 170 - 178
These personal memories and recollections seek to relocate John Cammett's contribution in the history of Italian and American politics in the 1960s. Cammett's deep involvement in the thought and human personality of Gramsci was closely intertwined with his fascination for the Italian communist left, which since the Resistance against Nazi-fascism had demonstrated its capacity to mobilize on a very wide scale the participation of the popular masses in the country's political life. Gramsci was for him a living cultural symbol and image of a successfully political movement whose counter-tar had been totally defeated, on the contrary, in the history of the United States. But Cammett's book on Gramsci brought an important chapter of Italian culture to the attention of the American Left at a moment when it was seeking new ideas and identities to challenge a political system weakened and undermined by the ideological constrains of the 1950s and its commitment to a very unpopular war.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Paggi, Leonardo |
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Cammett, John M.
Cammett, John M.
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