PHILOSOPHER

Antonio Gramsci

1891 - 1937

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Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee; US: GRAHM-shee, Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo franˈtʃesko ˈɡramʃi] ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Gramsci has received more than 4,084,021 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Antonio Gramsci is the 67th most popular philosopher (up from 68th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Italy (down from 104th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist philosopher and activist who was imprisoned by Mussolini in the 1920s. He is most famous for his theory of cultural hegemony, which explains how the dominant class in society can maintain power by controlling the cultural aspects of society, such as religion, education, and media.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Antonio Gramsci ranks 67 out of 1,267. Before him are Michel de Montaigne, Ibn Arabi, Pliny the Elder, Gorgias, Edmund Husserl, and Al-Kindi. After him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Ludwig Feuerbach, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Zeno of Citium, Karl Jaspers, and Rudolf Steiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Antonio Gramsci ranks 3. Before him are Karl Dönitz, and Erwin Rommel. After him are B. R. Ambedkar, Sergei Prokofiev, Mikhail Bulgakov, Walter Model, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, Edith Stein, James Chadwick, and John Howard Northrop. Among people deceased in 1937, Antonio Gramsci ranks 6. Before him are H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Rutherford, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Adler, and Pierre de Coubertin. After him are John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Erich Ludendorff, Amelia Earhart, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Gramsci ranks 111 out of 5,161. Before him are Pliny the Elder (23), Antoninus Pius (86), Pope Pius X (1835), Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Pope Paul III (1468), and Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916). After him are Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), Pope Innocent III (1160), Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820), Numa Pompilius (-753), Brutus the Younger (-85), and Sulla (-138).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Antonio Gramsci ranks 9. Before him are Parmenides (-501), Maria Montessori (1870), Empedocles (-490), Lucretius (-94), Zeno of Elea (-490), and Pliny the Elder (23). After him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Tommaso Campanella (1568), Bonaventure (1221), Marsilio Ficino (1433), and Giambattista Vico (1668).

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