The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and MarxismWinner of the Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sormani 2011, awarded by the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin for the best book/article on Gramsci in the period between 2007-2011 internationally. Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has been subjected, resulting in often contradictory 'images of Gramsci'. This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramsci's thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, The 'Gramscian moment' argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of developing a 'philosophy of praxis' as a vital element in the contemporary revitalisation of Marxism. |
Contents
Chapter One The Moment of Reading Capital | 1 |
12 Reading Capital in itsmoment | 7 |
13 The last great theoretical debate of Marxism | 8 |
14 Marxist philosophy | 12 |
15 The Althusserian and Gramscian moments | 24 |
metaphysical event and philosophical fact | 37 |
Chapter Two Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci? | 41 |
22 A theoretical toolbox? | 45 |
48 Duration versus historical epoch | 152 |
49 Crisis of authority | 153 |
410 Modernity as passive revolution? | 155 |
Chapter Five Civil and Political Hegemony | 159 |
51 Consent versus coercion | 161 |
52 Civil society versus the state | 167 |
Chapter Six The Realisation of Hegemony | 197 |
61 West versus East | 198 |
23 Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci | 47 |
24 1+13 | 50 |
25 Detours via detours | 52 |
26 The emergence of hegemony | 56 |
27 and its deformation | 58 |
28 Three versions of hegemony in theWest | 62 |
29 Political society + civil society state | 68 |
210 Shadows of Croce | 72 |
211 East and West past and present | 73 |
212 Antinomies of the united front | 75 |
213 The spectre of Kautsky | 78 |
214 A labyrinth within a labyrinth? | 80 |
Chapter Three A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma? On the Literary Form of the Prison Notebooks | 85 |
31 Traces of the past | 87 |
32 Code language | 102 |
33 Hieroglyphs | 109 |
a work in progress | 116 |
35 An unfinished dialogue | 123 |
36 An Ariadnes thread | 127 |
Chapter Four Contra the Passive Revolution | 133 |
41 The integral state | 137 |
42 The long nineteenth century | 141 |
43 The birth of civil society | 143 |
44 Passive revolution | 145 |
45 War of position | 148 |
46 War of position versus war of movement | 149 |
47 Two phases of passive revolution | 150 |
62 Hegemony bourgeois and proletarian | 220 |
63 Actuality of the united front | 240 |
Chapter Seven The Philosophy of Praxis is the Absolute Historicism | 243 |
71 The absolute historicism | 244 |
liquidation and dilution | 250 |
73 Ideology sive philosophy | 278 |
74 Towards a philosophy of praxis | 297 |
Chapter Eight The Absolute Secularisation and Earthliness of Thought | 307 |
81 Althusserian science | 310 |
82 Traces of immanence | 319 |
linguist | 325 |
84 Why immanence? | 339 |
economist | 347 |
86 Immanence theory | 362 |
87 The identity of theory and practice | 380 |
Chapter Nine An Absolute Humanismof History | 385 |
91 The humanist controversy | 386 |
92 Humanism hegemony and intellectuals | 406 |
93 Organic and traditional intellectuals | 416 |
94 Renaissance humanism | 422 |
95 Philosophos sive politicus | 426 |
96 The modern Prince and apparatus of proletarian hegemony as philosophical fact | 437 |
Today | 441 |
References | 455 |
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absolute historicism absolute humanism Althusser and Balibar Althusser's Althusserian analysis Anderson 1976a Antinomies Antinomies of Antonio Antonio Gramsci attempt bourgeois Bukharin characterised civil society coherence comprehend concept of hegemony concept of immanence concrete conjuncture constituted contemporary critical critique Croce cultural debates determinate dialectical dialectical materialism distinction dominant economic elaboration elements emergence fact formulation Francioni Frosini FSPN Gerratana Gram Gramsci argues Gramsci's thought Gramscian Hegel Hegelian hegemonic apparatus historical materialism historicist Ibid ical ideology integral intellectuals Italian Lenin Marx and Engels Marx's Marxist philosophy Marxist tradition merely metaphor metaphysical modern movement notes notion organisation particular passive revolution perspective phase philosophy of praxis political society position practice precisely Prison Notebooks proletarian Reading Capital reality revolutionary sense senso comune significance social formation specific speculative structure subaltern superstructures terrain themes theoretical theory thesis tion transformation translation united front unity