Viaggio attraverso la grande disgregazione: antropologia e filologia gramsciane, geografia e letteratura sarde

Mauro Pala

2017-01-01

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Abstract

Gramsci approaches issues of culture and ethnic identity using the same tools modern anthropologists employ in evaluating process of modernization in the periphery of the Western world. This contribution contends that common sense, civil society, culture as the product of intellectual and – in this case – literary activity, are situated within a whole, complex and internally antagonistic way of life, with which they actively interact. Philology, as conceived by Gramsci and as it has been more recently resumed by Edward Said in his cultural studies, helps assessing how intellectuals, notwithstanding their contiguity with hegemonic formations, develop into autonomous groups, fostering innovative forms of struggle against a pervasive subalternity experienced throughout a globalized Southern world.