Primary reading materials:

Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks [1947], excerpts from Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York: International Publishers, 1971) and excerpts from Prison Notebooks: Volume 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Jean-Paul Sartre, Presentation des Temps Modernes [1945].

Jean-Paul Sartre, Qu’est ce que la littérature in Situations II [1948]; What is Literature?, trans. Bernard Frechtman [1950].

Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface de Orphée Noire [1949]; Black Orpheus  [1964-1965].

Additional reading materials:

Max Weber, “Science as a Vocation,” [1922].

Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation” [1919].