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A Companion to Antonio Gramsci

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Some of Italy's most important Gransci scholars offer thoughts, reflections, and engagements with the Sardinian's life and works.
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In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Antonio Gramsci's thought combine their efforts to present an insightful and original intellectual portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential Marxist thinkers. Thematically organized into five parts, the volume focuses on the Sardinian's most important contributions. The first section offers readers a biographical sketch of Gramsci's life and work, the second presents his theories of history, the third and fourth examine his contributions to political theory, and the last deals with Gramsci's legacy and enduring influence.

Contributors include: Alberto Burgio, Davide Cadeddu, Giuseppe Cospito, Angelo d'Orsi, Michele Filippini, Guido Liguori, Marcello Montanari, Vittorio Morfino, Stefano Petrucciani, Michele Prospero, Leonardo Rapone, Giuseppe Vacca, and Marzio Zanantoni.

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Price: $25.00
Pages: 166
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date: 07 April 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781642594256
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social and political philosophy, Literary theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Davide Cadeddu, Ph.D. (2004), is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Milan. He has published articles and monographs on Italian contemporary political theories, including Reimagining Democracy (Springer, 2012).

Preface
  Acknowledgements
  Notes on Contributors


Part 1: History


 1 Gramsci: From Socialism to Communism
    Leonardo Rapone

 2 Antonio Gramsci: The Prison Years
    Angelo d’Orsi


Part 2: Theories of History


 3 The Crisis of European Civilization in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci
    Giuseppe Vacca

 4 Notes on Gramsci’s Theory of History
    Marcello Montanari

 5 The Layers of History and Politics in Gramsci
    Vittorio Morfino


Part 3: Communism


 6 Gramsci and Marx: Notes and Reflections
    Stefano Petrucciani

 7 Gramsci, the October Revolution and Its “Translation” in the West
    Guido Liguori

 8 On the Transition to Communism
    Alberto Burgio


Part 4: Hegemony


 9 Gramsci: Political Scientis
    Michele Prospero

 10 The “Prison Notebooks”: Hegemony and Civil Society
    Giuseppe Cospito

 11 On the Productive Use of Hegemony (Laclau, Hall, Chatterjee)
    Michele Filippini


Part 5: Historiography


 12 The Influence and Legacy of Antonio Gramsci in Twentieth-Century Italy
    Marzio Zanantoni

 13 The International Historiography on Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century
    Davide Cadeddu

  Bibliographic Abbreviations
  Index