Philosopher

Antonio Gramsci

Italian Marxist philosopher and politician

1891 - 1937

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His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2024). Antonio Gramsci is the 66th most popular philosopher (up from 67th in 2024), the 164th most popular biography from Italy (down from 111th in 2019) and the 8th 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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Antonio Gramsci ranks #164 among 5,905 people in Pantheon born in Italy, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Antonio Gramsci's biography appears in 97 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Philosophers.

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Among Philosophers

Among philosophers, Antonio Gramsci ranks 66 out of 1,285. Before him are Zeno of Elea, Zhuang Zhou, Epictetus, Thomas More, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Zhu Xi. After him are Zeno of Citium, Xenophanes, Gorgias, Ibn Arabi, Nagarjuna, and Pliny the Elder.

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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 Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, and Pär Lagerkvist. Among people deceased in 1937, Antonio Gramsci ranks 7. Before him are Ernest Rutherford, Guglielmo Marconi, Maurice Ravel, Pierre de Coubertin, John D. Rockefeller, and Alfred Adler. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and George Gershwin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Gramsci ranks 164 out of 5,905. Before him are Michael Collins (1930), Pope Anacletus (1), Pope Gregory IX (1160), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Numa Pompilius (-753), and Cardinal Mazarin (1602). After him are Pope Eugene IV (1383), Enzo Ferrari (1898), Pliny the Elder (23), Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), and Pope Benedict IX (1012).

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Among Philosophers In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Antonio Gramsci ranks 8. Before him are Thomas Aquinas (1225), Maria Montessori (1870), Parmenides (-501), Lucretius (-94), Empedocles (-490), and Zeno of Elea (-490). After him are Pliny the Elder (23), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Bonaventure (1221), Marsilio Ficino (1433), and Giambattista Vico (1668).

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