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An introduction to Antonio Gramsci : his life, thought and legacy / George Hoare and Nathan Sperber.
Van Pelt Library JC265.G68 H63 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoare, George, 1984- author.
- Sperber, Nathan, 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937--Political and social views.
- Gramsci, Antonio.
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937--Influence.
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.
- Political science--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- History.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 257 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Life 5
- 1 Antonio Gramsci, 1891-1937 7
- Introduction 7
- Sardinian origins: Antonu su gobbu 8
- Turin 10
- Journalism and militancy 10
- L'Ordine Nuovo 13
- The Communist Party 16
- Prison and the Notebooks 20
- Part 2 Thought 25
- 2 Culture 27
- Introduction 27
- Intellectuals 30
- Defining the intellectual 30
- The organic intellectual and the traditional intellectual 33
- Intellectuals and political struggle 36
- Education 39
- Defining education 39
- The school 41
- The dialectic of conformity and spontaneity 43
- Journalism 45
- The press and the organization of culture 45
- The bourgeois press 46
- 'Integral journalism' 48
- Popular literature 50
- 3 Politics 53
- Introduction 53
- Civil society, political society and the State 55
- Difficult definitions 55
- 'East' and 'West' 58
- War of movement and war of position 59
- The interpretation of modern politics 60
- Gramsci's method of historical analysis 60
- The era of revolution-restoration 61
- The national-popular Jacobin revolution 62
- The Risorgimento as 'passive revolution' 63
- Trasformismo, molecularity and scission 65
- Conjunctural processes and organic crises 67
- Caesarism 69
- The analysis of fascism 71
- The modern Prince 73
- What is a political party? 73
- The modern Prince: The incarnation of revolution 75
- The party as living organism 77
- Two errors of revolutionary strategy 78
- 4 Philosophy 81
- Redefining philosophy: The individual, philosophy and politics 81
- Theory, practice and philosophical anthropology 81
- 'Every man is a philosopher' 83
- Common sense 86
- The 'folklore of philosophy' 86
- A pragmatist epistemology 89
- Ideology 91
- Religion and the Catholic Church 93
- The economy: From economic base to historic bloc 98
- Point of departure: The base/superstructure metaphor 98
- The critique of economism 99
- Americanism and Fordism 101
- Point of arrival: The 'historic bloc' 105
- The philosophy of praxis 108
- Materialism, idealism and Croce 108
- 'Absolute historicism' 112
- The revolution of common sense 114
- 5 Hegemony 117
- Introduction 117
- Hegemony: The exercise of leadership 118
- Origins 118
- Political projects 119
- Consent and coercion 122
- Hegemony: A cognitive and moral process 125
- A culture in formation 125
- The ethical State 127
- Hegemonic consciousness as catharsis 130
- The historical stages of hegemony 132
- The pre-hegemonic State 132
- Bourgeois hegemony 133
- From proletarian hegemony to the 'regulated society' 136
- Part 3 Applications 139
- 8 Thinking through Gramsci in Political Theory: Left/Right and the Critical Analysis of Common Sense 141
- Introduction 141
- Contextualizing common sense: Left/Right in politics and everyday life 144
- Historicizing common sense: Left/Right since the French Revolution 150
- Analysing common sense: The formal characteristics of the Left/ Right metaphor 154
- The conception of the world contained in common sense: The conception of politics underlying Left/Right 158
- The critique of common sense: Interpreting Left/Right as a political narrative 164
- Conclusion 168
- 7 Thinking through Gramsci in Political Economy: Neo-Liberalism and Hegemony in Britain and France in the 1980s 171
- Introduction 171
- Stuart Hall: Thatcherism as hegemonic project 175
- Socialist politics in France before 1981: A Left turn 179
- Five years of Socialist government: A rocky path to neo-liberalism 184
- Parti Socialiste discourse during neo-liberalization: Dissonance and demobilization 189
- Coherent vs. split historic blocs 192
- Neo-liberalism and intellectuals in France: Transformism and fatalism 196
- Conclusion 201
- Part 4 Legacy 203
- 8 Mapping Gramsci's Legacy 205
- Introduction 205
- Gramsci and Western Marxism 206
- Gramsci and Italian communism 210
- Gramsci and post-Marxism 214
- Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies 217
- Gramsci and Cultural Studies 223
- Gramsci and International Political Economy 228
- Conclusion 232.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472572776
- 1472572777
- 9781472572769
- 1472572769
- OCLC:
- 932047522
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