Routledge Guidebook to Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks by Schwarzmantel, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Series editor’s preface Preface References to Gramsci’s own works 1. Gramsci before the Prison Notebooks

The early Gramsci Suggestions for further reading

2. The Nature and genesis of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

Key themes and originality of the Prison Notebooks Nature and writing of the Prison Notebooks Suggestions for further reading

3. Intellectuals and education

The problem of intellectuals Defining the intellectual Organic intellectuals and the political party On education Suggestions for further reading

4. History and modernity

The Risorgimento: hegemony and subalternity Passive revolution From Risorgimento to fascism, and beyond History and modernity Americanism and Fordism Socialism and modernity Fordism in communism and fascism Gramsci as a theorist of modernity Suggestions for further reading

5. Politics, state and civil society

Interpreting Machiavelli The autonomy of the political: against economic determinism The political party as the modern Prince Rulers and ruled: leadership and the masses Caesarism and the crisis of the state Concepts of the state The sphere of civil society War of position Suggestions for further reading

6. Philosophy and Marxism

The philosophy of praxis What is philosophy? Marxism as popular philosophy Historicism Base, superstructure, historical bloc The critique of Croce Immanence and transcendence Critical evaluation Suggestions for further reading

7. The afterlife and influence of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

Gramsci and post-war Italy National and global: debates outside Italy Gramsci and the analysis of Thatcherism Conclusion: the Prison Notebooks today Suggestions for further reading

Bibliography Index