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Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci
Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 215
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Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2021.
Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormaniâ International Prize' for works on Antonio Gramsci (Fifth edition, 2020).
In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsciâs thought. Building 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 Gramsciâs reflections on hegemony and on its transformations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsciâs understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it also sheds a meaningful light on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to the USSR of his time. Finally, yet importantly, Antonini's analysis illuminates Gramsciâs approach towards the Marxian legacy.
See inside the book.
Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormaniâ International Prize' for works on Antonio Gramsci (Fifth edition, 2020).
In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsciâs thought. Building 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 Gramsciâs reflections on hegemony and on its transformations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsciâs understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it also sheds a meaningful light on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to the USSR of his time. Finally, yet importantly, Antonini's analysis illuminates Gramsciâs approach towards the Marxian legacy.
See inside the book.
Francesca Antonini, Ph.D. (2015), is Early Career Fellow in Intellectual History at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany). Previously, she has held research fellowships at the ENS Lyon (France) and at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin, Italy).
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2021.
Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci is winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormaniâ International Prize' for works on Antonio Gramsci (Fifth edition, 2020).
"Antoniniâs book is very significant in comprehending and situating the place of Marxâs works in Gramsciâs theory; but also in analysing the current occurrence of authoritarian and quasi-fascist regimes in the light of his concepts. The book gives detailed and elaborative research on Gramscian Caesarism..."
- Sevgi DoÄan, in: Marx and Philosophy Reviews of Books, 15 April 2021 [Full review]
â... la studiosa mostra, senza possibilità di equivoci, come tale rielaborazione sia tutto fuorché un blocco omogeneo e statico; essa percorre infatti una lunga traiettoria diacronica che abbraccia più di ventâanni e vede convivere al suo interno diversi (e sensibili) cambiamenti dellâorizzonte interpretativo."
(â...the scholar shows, without the possibility of misunderstanding, how this re-elaboration [of the categories of Caesarism and Bonapartism] is anything but a homogeneous and static block; in fact, it traces a long trajectory that spans more than twenty years and shows different nuances within the interpretative horizon in which it takes place.â)
- Alessio Panichi, Johns Hopkins University, in: Storia del pensiero politico 1 (2021)
Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci is winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormaniâ International Prize' for works on Antonio Gramsci (Fifth edition, 2020).
"Antoniniâs book is very significant in comprehending and situating the place of Marxâs works in Gramsciâs theory; but also in analysing the current occurrence of authoritarian and quasi-fascist regimes in the light of his concepts. The book gives detailed and elaborative research on Gramscian Caesarism..."
- Sevgi DoÄan, in: Marx and Philosophy Reviews of Books, 15 April 2021 [Full review]
â... la studiosa mostra, senza possibilità di equivoci, come tale rielaborazione sia tutto fuorché un blocco omogeneo e statico; essa percorre infatti una lunga traiettoria diacronica che abbraccia più di ventâanni e vede convivere al suo interno diversi (e sensibili) cambiamenti dellâorizzonte interpretativo."
(â...the scholar shows, without the possibility of misunderstanding, how this re-elaboration [of the categories of Caesarism and Bonapartism] is anything but a homogeneous and static block; in fact, it traces a long trajectory that spans more than twenty years and shows different nuances within the interpretative horizon in which it takes place.â)
- Alessio Panichi, Johns Hopkins University, in: Storia del pensiero politico 1 (2021)
Preface: Gramsci on Caesarism and Bonapartism
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
1 The Concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism from Marx to Gramsci
â1âThe Genesis of the Category between Historiography and Political Polemics
â2âMarx: From The Eighteenth Brumaire to The Civil War in France
â3âAcross the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries
2 The Pre-prison Writings
â1âTwo (Almost) Neglected Categories
â2âMarx, Gramsci and the Marxian Sources
3 Socialism and Romanticism
â1âAgainst Maximalism and Reformism: Reckoning with Italian Socialism
â2âThe âRomanceâ of the Italian Bourgeoisie
4 Crisis and Balance: Between Revolution and Restoration
â1âGramsciâs Political Theory: Crisis and Balance
â2âThe Catastrophic Crisis of Capitalism
â3âThe Balance Metaphor: The Origins of the âRelations of Forceâ
5 Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism in Gramsciâs Journalistic Works
â1âThe Crisis of the Liberal Order and the Rise of Fascism
â2âA (Critical) Theory of State and Politics
â3âMarxâs Eighteenth Brumaire: Analogies and Analyses
â4âOn the Gramsci-Marx Relationship in the Pre-prison Writings
6 Towards the Prison Notebooks
â1âContinuity and Novelty
â2âThe Editions of Marxâs Texts
â3âOverview of the Occurrences
7 The Meanings of âBonapartismâ
â1âBonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
â2âMilitarism and War of Movement
â3âGramsci and the So-called âDictatorships of Depretis, Crispi and Giolittiâ
â4âBonapartism and Bureaucracy
8 Between Bonapartism and Caesarism
â1âAnachronistic Revival or Useful Analytical Tool?
â2âQ 13, §§ 23 and 27 and Their First Drafts
â3âFurther Occurrences
9 Gramsci and the Theory of Caesarism
â1âMichels and âCharismatic Leadershipâ
â2ââThe Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Bornâ
â3âThe Dreyfus Affair and the âTendentialâ Character of the Catastrophic Crisis
â4âThe âTaxonomyâ of Caesarism
10 Caesarism and Historical Analysis
â1âGramscian âConcernsâ
â2âThe Historico-political Framework of the Prison Notebooks
â3âCaesarism and Passive Revolution
11 Hegemony and Modernity
â1âTwentieth-Century Caesarism
â2âCrisis of Authority and Caesarist-Bonapartist Solutions
â3âA New Form of Hegemony
12 Contemporary Caesarism(s)
â1âTotalitarian Trends
â2âBetween Moscow and Rome
â3ââAlternative Modernitiesâ
â4ââCaesarism without a Caesarâ and the Issue of the Modern Prince
13 Caesarism, Bonapartism and the âReturn to Marxâ in the Prison Writings
â1âGramsci and the Marxian Legacy
â2âCaesarism and Bonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
1 The Concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism from Marx to Gramsci
â1âThe Genesis of the Category between Historiography and Political Polemics
â2âMarx: From The Eighteenth Brumaire to The Civil War in France
â3âAcross the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries
2 The Pre-prison Writings
â1âTwo (Almost) Neglected Categories
â2âMarx, Gramsci and the Marxian Sources
3 Socialism and Romanticism
â1âAgainst Maximalism and Reformism: Reckoning with Italian Socialism
â2âThe âRomanceâ of the Italian Bourgeoisie
4 Crisis and Balance: Between Revolution and Restoration
â1âGramsciâs Political Theory: Crisis and Balance
â2âThe Catastrophic Crisis of Capitalism
â3âThe Balance Metaphor: The Origins of the âRelations of Forceâ
5 Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism in Gramsciâs Journalistic Works
â1âThe Crisis of the Liberal Order and the Rise of Fascism
â2âA (Critical) Theory of State and Politics
â3âMarxâs Eighteenth Brumaire: Analogies and Analyses
â4âOn the Gramsci-Marx Relationship in the Pre-prison Writings
6 Towards the Prison Notebooks
â1âContinuity and Novelty
â2âThe Editions of Marxâs Texts
â3âOverview of the Occurrences
7 The Meanings of âBonapartismâ
â1âBonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
â2âMilitarism and War of Movement
â3âGramsci and the So-called âDictatorships of Depretis, Crispi and Giolittiâ
â4âBonapartism and Bureaucracy
8 Between Bonapartism and Caesarism
â1âAnachronistic Revival or Useful Analytical Tool?
â2âQ 13, §§ 23 and 27 and Their First Drafts
â3âFurther Occurrences
9 Gramsci and the Theory of Caesarism
â1âMichels and âCharismatic Leadershipâ
â2ââThe Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Bornâ
â3âThe Dreyfus Affair and the âTendentialâ Character of the Catastrophic Crisis
â4âThe âTaxonomyâ of Caesarism
10 Caesarism and Historical Analysis
â1âGramscian âConcernsâ
â2âThe Historico-political Framework of the Prison Notebooks
â3âCaesarism and Passive Revolution
11 Hegemony and Modernity
â1âTwentieth-Century Caesarism
â2âCrisis of Authority and Caesarist-Bonapartist Solutions
â3âA New Form of Hegemony
12 Contemporary Caesarism(s)
â1âTotalitarian Trends
â2âBetween Moscow and Rome
â3ââAlternative Modernitiesâ
â4ââCaesarism without a Caesarâ and the Issue of the Modern Prince
13 Caesarism, Bonapartism and the âReturn to Marxâ in the Prison Writings
â1âGramsci and the Marxian Legacy
â2âCaesarism and Bonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
All interested in the thought of Antonio Gramsci and in the history of the concepts of Caesarism and Bonapartism, and anyone concerned with 19th-20th century Italian Marxism.