Hegemony and power : on the relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli / Benedetto Fontana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontana, Benedetto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Italy--History--20th century.

Communism.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Influence.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents a comparative and textual exploration of Gramsci's interpretation of Machiavelli's political analyses. This valuable contribution to our understanding of Gramsci includes a comparison of the major Machiavellian ideas such as the nature of political knowledge, the new principality, the concept of the people, and the relation between thought and action, to Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, moral and intellectual reform, and the collective will.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Gramsci and Machiavelli; 2. Croce and Gramsci: From Philosophy to Politics; 3. Renaissance and Reformation; 4. Power and the State: Croce and Gramsci on the Nature of Machiavelli's Politics; 5. Hegemony and Virtù: Moral and Intellectual Reform in Gramsci and Machiavelli; 6. Machiavelli and the Democratic Philosopher: The Relation between Machiavelli's ""New Modes and Orders"" and Gramsci's Hegemony; 7. The Constitution of the People as a Political Force: Hegemony, Virtù Ordinata, and the Citizen Democracy; 8. Conclusion: Hegemony and Power; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Cover title: Hegemony & power.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Hegemony & power.

ISBN:

0-8166-8524-X

OCLC:

476093327