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Gramsci and Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism : the political theory and practice of opposition / Emanuele Saccarelli.
Van Pelt Library HX289.7.G73 S213 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saccarelli, Emanuele, 1971-
- Series:
- Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)
- Studies in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.
- Gramsci, Antonio.
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
- Trotsky, Leon.
- Communism--Philosophy.
- Communism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book addresses a particular period in the historical development of Marxism (the rise of Stalinism), and on two theorists who opposed Stalinism (Gramsci and Trotsky), in order to make sense of Marxism's contemporary impasse, both as an important strand of political theory and as a living philosophical and political tradition.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Enter stage left, Gramsci and Trotsky
- Out of the wrappings : gramsciology and the embalming of political theory
- A man of modest appetite : Gramsci and political cannibalism
- Telling fortunes to the doomed : Trotsky from clairvoyance to theory
- The balance of criticism : Trotsky's high-wire act
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415961097
- 0415961092
- OCLC:
- 173182546
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