Caesarism and bonapartism in gramsci : hegemony and the crisis of modernity / Francesca Antonini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antonini, Francesca, author.

Contributor:

Brill Academic Publishers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonapartism.

Caesarism.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : BRILL, [2021]

Summary:

"In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Capitalising on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, she investigates his usage of the concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism, both in his pre-prison writings and in the Prison Notebooks . The Caesarist-Bonapartist paradigm relates crucially to Gramsci's reflections on hegemony and on its transformations across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsci's understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it sheds a meaningful light also on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to contemporary USSR. Finally, yet importantly, such an analysis illuminates Gramsci's approach towards the Marxian legacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism from Marx to Gramsci

The pre prison writings

Socialism and romanticism

Crisis and balance: Between revolution and restoration

Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism in Gramsci's journalistic works

Towards the prison notebooks

The meanings of 'Bonapartism'

Between Bonapartism and Caesarism

Gramsci and the theory of Caesarism

Caesarism and historical analysis

Hegemony and modernity

Contemporary Caesarism(s)

Caesarism, Bonapartism and the 'Return to Marx' in the prison

Writings.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44182-4