Gramsci's pathways / by Guido Liguori ; translation by David Broder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liguori, Guido, author.

Contributor:

Broder, David, translator.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 102.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 102

Standardized Title:

Sentieri gramsciani. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937. Quaderni del carcere.

Quaderni del carcere (Gramsci, Antonio).

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

Gramsci's works, in particular his 'Prison Notebooks', are a real 'workshop' of activity. Even though these texts were the product of a great mind and an organic conception of the world, the particular context in which they are written poses challenges for their interpreters. This philological 'excavation' of the pathways of Gramsci's thinking brings us closer to an author who is more 'widely-known' than he is understood. The first part of the volume deals with central themes of Gramsci's worldview such as the concepts of the state, civil society, ideology, common sense, morality and conformism. The second part deals with Gramsci's relations with thinkers as diverse as Marx, Engels, Togliatti and Labriola, whereas the third part offers some reflections on the metaphors used by Gramsci as well as contemporary views of the Sardinian Communist. 0First published in Italian by Carocci as 'Sentieri gramsciani', 2006.

Contents:

1 The Extended State 1

1 The Extension of the Concept of the State 1

2 The First 'Extension': Politics and Economics 2

3 The Second 'Extension': Political Society and Civil Society 8

4 State and Class Consciousness 9

5 Dating Texts 14

6 Notebook 6: Definitions 16

7 The Ethical State 18

8 Statolatry 20

9 Unstable Equilibria 24

2 Civil Society 26

1 Bobbio's Interpretation 26

2 Civil Society in Marx 28

3 Gramsci's Dialectical Conception 32

4 'Civil Society' in Contemporary Debates 36

5 A New Marxist Theory of the State 40

3 State, Nation, Mundialisation 42

1 Mundialisation and Globalisation 42

2 Gramsci and Taylorism 45

3 The Myth of Civil Society 48

4 State and Nation 49

5 Against 'Passive Revolution' 53

4 Party and Movements 55

1 Gramsci and Lenin 55

2 Relations with 'the Subalterns' 57

3 The Ordine Nuovo Years 60

4 L'Ordlne Nuovo in the Notebooks 62

5 Ideologies and Conceptions of the World 65

1 From Marx to Gramsci 65

2 Gramsci and Marx (and Croce) 70

3 The Term 'Ideology' 75

4 The Family of Concepts 80

5 Ideology and Will 84

6 Good Sense and Common Sense 85

1 Two Meanings 85

2 Spontaneity and Backwardness 89

3 Common Sense, Neoidealism, Misoneism 94

4 Marxism and Common Sense 98

5 Common Sense and Philosophy 102

6 The Re-evaluation of 'Good Sense' 106

7 The Last Notebooks 110

8 Conclusions: The Double 'Return to Marx' 111

7 Morality and 'Conformism' 113

1 Marx and Morality 113

2 Gramsci's World 114

3 Universality and Historicity 115

8 Marx. From the Manifesto to the Notebooks 120

1 From 'War of Movement' to 'War of Position' 120

2 Marx in the Notebooks 121

3 The Re-evaluation of Ideologies 122

4 The National/International Connection 123

5 Politics and the State 125

6 Against the Commodity Form 127

9 Engels's Presence in the Prison Notebooks 128

1 Negative Judgements 128

2 Anti-Dühring 133

3 Engels's Anti-determinism 138

10 Labriola: The Role of Ideology 142

1 Labriola and Gramsci 142

2 Marx in Labriola's First Essay 146

3 From One 'Essay' to Another 148

4 From Labriola to Gramsci 153

11 Togliatti. The Interpreter and 'Translator' 156

1 Between Fascism and Stalinism: 'for Democratic Freedoms' 156

2 'Gramsci's Politics' in Liberated Italy 163

3 After '56: The 'Theorist of Polities' 171

4 The Final Chapter: Gramsci, a Man 173

12 Hegemony and Its Interpreters 176

1 After '56: Between Dictatorship and Democracy 176

2 1967: Political and Cultural Leadership 178

3 The 1970s: Hegemony and Hegemonic Apparatus 179

4 1975-6: Hegemony and Democracy 181

5 1977: The Forms of Hegemony 182

6 Hegemony and 'Prestige' 184

7 The 1980s: A Non-modem Gramsci? 186

8 The 1990s: Hegemony and Interdependence 187

9 Hegemony and Globalisation 189

10 The Word 'Hegemony' 190

13 Dewey, Gramsci and Cornel West 192

1 Marxism and Pragmatism 192

2 The American Pragmatism of the Prison Notebooks 194

3 Gramsci and Dewey 195

4 Dewey and Marxism 197

5 West's Gramsci 199

14 The Modern Prince 202

1 Against Stenterello 202

2 The Machiavelli Question 205

3 The Fourth Notebook: Marx and Machiavelli 209

4 The Eighth Notebook: The Modem Prince 213

5 A Jacobin Force 220.

Notes:

Translated from the Italian.

"First published in Italian by Carocci Editore as 'Sentieri gramsciani', Biblioteca di testi e studi, Rome, 2006" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004245198

9004245197

OCLC:

914219715