Abstract

GARRIDO, Juan Ignacio. Liberation Notebooks. Estud. polít. (Méx.) [online]. 2015, n.34, pp.167-181. ISSN 0185-1616.

In the present text, the author remarks that The Prison Notebooks hold the certainty that if the risk of approaching politics in all its complexity is not taken, the philosophy of the practice will be pushed into the background to a pristine account of the reality and will not cause the social change which originates it. Even worse, it could cause the same collective disasters that were aimed to be changed. Gramsci knew that everything existing under a strong politic realism could not be destroyed without, at the same time, generating a creative process, imaginative, in which it was necessary to start to reflect in order to face the historic difficulty of building a collective will.

Keywords : Gramsci; Machiavelli; Marx; political realism; imagination.