Gramsci's democratic theory : contributions to a post-liberal democracy / Sue Golding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golding, Sue, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

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

Gramsci, Antonio.

Quaderni del carcere (Gramsci, Antonio).

Genre:

Gransci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An in-depth study of Antonio Gramsci?s prison notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) and his specific contributions to radical democratic theory. The book encompasses English, Italian, and French debates on the subject as well as political and philosophical discussions concerning the limitations of liberal and socialist democratic theory.

Contents:

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1 Setting the Problem

Clarifying the 'limits' to liberalism

The second impasse

The Hegelian interpretation and attempted resolution of the impasse

Chapter 2 Gramsci's Epistemological Eclecticism: What He Borrows from Vico and Croce, and Why

Against 'external realities' or dualisms of any kind

The contributions of Vico: Science as knowledge as history

Why Croce

Chapter 3 Science, Immanence, and the 'Real' Dialectic: A Question of the Political

The 'political' moment

The problem (and importance) of science; Rational and real in the 'real' dialectic

Chapter 4 The Understated Importance of the Concept of the Will

Will as the basis of a philosophy of praxis

'Ethico-political' as an expression of collective will

The dilemma of a 'totalized social' immanent in its expression

Chapter 5 Investigating the Base/Superstructure Dilemma and What Gramsci Does to Change It

The 'base' versus the 'structure' dilemma

The 'economic' as 'structure' (or the so-called problem of 'quantity')

Into the structure and what Gramsci finds there; From hegemony in the structure to the ethico-political state

Chapter 6 Gramsci's Contribution to a Post-Liberal-Democratic Theory: Concluding Remarks

Gramsci's contribution

The continuing search

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-04579-2

9786612045790

1-4426-7548-9

OCLC:

244767930