An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy by George Hoare -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Halftitle Page Title Page Contents A Note on the Text Introduction

Thinking through Gramsci The structure of the book

Part One: Life

1. Antonio Gramsci, 1891–1937

Introduction Sardinian origins: Antonu su gobbu Turin

Journalism and militancy L’Ordine Nuovo

The Communist Party Prison and the Notebooks

Part Two: Thought

2. Culture

Introduction Intellectuals

Defining the intellectual The organic intellectual and the traditional intellectual Intellectuals and political struggle

Education

Defining education The school The dialectic of conformity and spontaneity

Journalism

The press and the organization of culture The bourgeois press ‘Integral journalism’

Popular literature

3. Politics

Introduction Civil society, political society and the State

Difficult definitions ‘East’ and ‘West’ War of movement and war of position

The interpretation of modern politics

Gramsci’s method of historical analysis The era of revolution-restoration The national-popular Jacobin revolution The Risorgimento as ‘passive revolution’ Trasformismo, molecularity and scission Conjunctural processes and organic crises Caesarism The analysis of fascism

The modern Prince

What is a political party? The modern Prince: The incarnation of revolution The party as living organism Two errors of revolutionary strategy

4. Philosophy

Redefining philosophy: The individual, philosophy and politics

Theory, practice and philosophical anthropology ‘Every man is a philosopher’

Common sense

The ‘folklore of philosophy’ A pragmatist epistemology

Ideology Religion and the Catholic Church The economy: From economic base to historic bloc

Point of departure: The base/superstructure metaphor The critique of economism Americanism and Fordism Point of arrival: The ‘historic bloc’

The philosophy of praxis

Materialism, idealism and Croce ‘Absolute historicism’ The revolution of common sense

5. Hegemony

Introduction Hegemony: The exercise of leadership

Origins Political projects Consent and coercion

Hegemony: A cognitive and moral process

A culture in formation The ethical State Hegemonic consciousness as catharsis

The historical stages of hegemony

The pre-hegemonic State Bourgeois hegemony From proletarian hegemony to the ‘regulated society’

Part Three: Applications

6. Thinking through Gramsci in Political Theory: Left/Right and the Critical Analysis of Common Sense

Introduction Contextualizing common sense: Left/Right in politics and everyday life Historicizing common sense: Left/Right since the French Revolution Analysing common sense: The formal characteristics of the Left/Right metaphor The conception of the world contained in common sense: The conception of politics underlying Left/Right The critique of common sense: Interpreting Left/Right as a political narrative Conclusion

7. Thinking through Gramsci in Political Economy: Neo-Liberalism and Hegemony in Britain and France in the 1980s

Introduction Stuart Hall: Thatcherism as hegemonic project Socialist politics in France before 1981: A Left turn Five years of Socialist government: A rocky path to neo-liberalism Parti Socialiste discourse during neo-liberalization: Dissonance and demobilization Coherent vs. split historic blocs Neo-liberalism and intellectuals in France: Transformism and fatalism Conclusion

Part Four: Legacy

8. Mapping Gramsci’s Legacy

Introduction Gramsci and Western Marxism Gramsci and Italian communism Gramsci and post-Marxism Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies Gramsci and Cultural Studies Gramsci and International Political Economy Conclusion

Guide to Further Reading

Gramsci in English Gramsci’s life Secondary sources Other resources A suggestion on reading Gramsci

Bibliography Index Imprint

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