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Revisiting Gramsciâs Notebooks
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 205
Revisiting Gramsciâs Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsciâs texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsciâs thought to generate and nurture innovative inquiries across diverse themes.
Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our âgreat and terribleâ world.
Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.
Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our âgreat and terribleâ world.
Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.
Francesca Antonini, Ph.D. (2015) is Early Career Fellow in Intellectual History at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany). Her first monograph (Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity) is forthcoming with Brill.
Aaron Bernstein received his Ph.D in European Studies at King's College London (2016). He is the editor of Gramsci and the German Crisis 1929-34, forthcoming with Brill, and is currently writing a monograph provisionally entitled, From the Theses on Feuerbach to the Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Gramsci, Philosophy and Politics, also forthcoming with Brill.
Lorenzo Fusaro, Ph.D. in IPE (Kingâs College London, 2013), is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He is the author of diverse works, including Crises and Hegemonic Transitions. From Gramsciâs Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy (Brill, 2019).
Robert Jackson, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published in Science & Society, the International Gramsci Journal, and Gramsciana, and in the edited volumes Subjectivity and the Political (Routledge, 2017) The Meanings of Violence (Routledge, 2018).
Aaron Bernstein received his Ph.D in European Studies at King's College London (2016). He is the editor of Gramsci and the German Crisis 1929-34, forthcoming with Brill, and is currently writing a monograph provisionally entitled, From the Theses on Feuerbach to the Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Gramsci, Philosophy and Politics, also forthcoming with Brill.
Lorenzo Fusaro, Ph.D. in IPE (Kingâs College London, 2013), is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He is the author of diverse works, including Crises and Hegemonic Transitions. From Gramsciâs Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy (Brill, 2019).
Robert Jackson, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published in Science & Society, the International Gramsci Journal, and Gramsciana, and in the edited volumes Subjectivity and the Political (Routledge, 2017) The Meanings of Violence (Routledge, 2018).
Revisiting Gramsciâs Notebooks: Book Launch with Robert Jackson, Peter D. Thomas, Anne Showstack Sassoon, Francesca Antonini & Lorenzo Fusaro [Click here for the recording of the session]
Foreword Acknowledgements Note on the Text Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gramsci Past and Present âFrancesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro and Robert Jackson
1 Gramsci as a Historical Geographical Materialist âAlex Loftus
2 Neoliberalism as Passive Revolution? Insights from the Egyptian Experience âRoberto Roccu
3 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: âPast and Presentâ of Thailandâs Organic Crisis âWatcharabon Buddharaksa
4 Gramsci: Structure of Language, Structure of Ideology âDerek Boothman
5 Hegemonic Language: The Politics of Linguistic Phenomena âAlen SuÄeska
6 Translations of Gramsciâs Texts into Polish: A Gramscian Analysis âMarta Natalia Wróblewska
7 Time and Revolution in Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks âFabio Frosini
8 From Marxâs Diesseitigkeit to Gramsciâs terrestrità assoluta âAaron Bernstein
9 Interpreting the Present from the Past: Gramsci, Marx and the Historical Analogy âFrancesca Antonini
10 We Good Subalterns âPeter D. Thomas
11 Subalternity and the National-Popular: A Brief Genealogy of the Concepts âAnne Freeland
12 What Can We Learn from Gramsci Today? Migrant Subalternity and the Refugee Movements: Perspectives from the Lampedusa in Hamburg âSusi Meret
13 Back to the South: Revisiting Gramsciâs Southern Question in the Light of Subaltern Studies âCarmine Conelli
14 Gramsci and Foucault in Counterpoint âNicolas Vandeviver
15 The Changing Meanings of Peopleâs Politics: Gramsci and Anthropology from the History of Subaltern Classes to Contemporary Political Subjects âRiccardo Ciavolella
16 Religion, Common Sense, and Good Sense in Gramsci âTakahiro Chino
17 Past and Present: Popular Literature âIngo Pohn-Lauggas
18 The Mummification of Culture in Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks âRobert Jackson
19 Gramsci and the Rise of Capitalism âYohann Douet
20 The Gramscian Moment in International Political Economy âLorenzo Fusaro
21 Rethinking Fordism âBruno Settis
22 Between Belonging and Originality: Norberto Bobbioâs Interpretation of Gramsci âAlessio Panichi
23 The Diffusion of Gramsciâs Thought in the âPeripheral Westâ of Latin America âValentina Cuppi
24 An Imaginary Gramscianism? Early French Gramscianism and the Quest for âMarxist Humanismâ (1947â65) âAnthony Crézégut
25 Althusser, Gramsci and Machiavelli: Encounters and Mis-encounters âSebastian Neubauer
References
Index
Introduction: Gramsci Past and Present âFrancesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro and Robert Jackson
Part 1 Global Gramsci: Gramscian Geographies
1 Gramsci as a Historical Geographical Materialist âAlex Loftus
2 Neoliberalism as Passive Revolution? Insights from the Egyptian Experience âRoberto Roccu
3 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: âPast and Presentâ of Thailandâs Organic Crisis âWatcharabon Buddharaksa
Part 2 Language and Translation
4 Gramsci: Structure of Language, Structure of Ideology âDerek Boothman
5 Hegemonic Language: The Politics of Linguistic Phenomena âAlen SuÄeska
6 Translations of Gramsciâs Texts into Polish: A Gramscian Analysis âMarta Natalia Wróblewska
Part 3 Gramsci and the Marxian Legacy
7 Time and Revolution in Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks âFabio Frosini
8 From Marxâs Diesseitigkeit to Gramsciâs terrestrità assoluta âAaron Bernstein
9 Interpreting the Present from the Past: Gramsci, Marx and the Historical Analogy âFrancesca Antonini
Part 4 Subalternity between Pre-modernity and Modernity
10 We Good Subalterns âPeter D. Thomas
11 Subalternity and the National-Popular: A Brief Genealogy of the Concepts âAnne Freeland
12 What Can We Learn from Gramsci Today? Migrant Subalternity and the Refugee Movements: Perspectives from the Lampedusa in Hamburg âSusi Meret
Part 5 Postcolonial and Anthropological Approaches
13 Back to the South: Revisiting Gramsciâs Southern Question in the Light of Subaltern Studies âCarmine Conelli
14 Gramsci and Foucault in Counterpoint âNicolas Vandeviver
15 The Changing Meanings of Peopleâs Politics: Gramsci and Anthropology from the History of Subaltern Classes to Contemporary Political Subjects âRiccardo Ciavolella
Part 6 Culture, Ideology, Religion
16 Religion, Common Sense, and Good Sense in Gramsci âTakahiro Chino
17 Past and Present: Popular Literature âIngo Pohn-Lauggas
18 The Mummification of Culture in Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks âRobert Jackson
Part 7 Historical Capitalism and World History
19 Gramsci and the Rise of Capitalism âYohann Douet
20 The Gramscian Moment in International Political Economy âLorenzo Fusaro
21 Rethinking Fordism âBruno Settis
Part 8 Readings of Gramsci
22 Between Belonging and Originality: Norberto Bobbioâs Interpretation of Gramsci âAlessio Panichi
23 The Diffusion of Gramsciâs Thought in the âPeripheral Westâ of Latin America âValentina Cuppi
24 An Imaginary Gramscianism? Early French Gramscianism and the Quest for âMarxist Humanismâ (1947â65) âAnthony Crézégut
25 Althusser, Gramsci and Machiavelli: Encounters and Mis-encounters âSebastian Neubauer
References
Index
All interested in the thought of Antonio Gramsci and the history of Marxist thought in the twentieth century, and anyone concerned with the diverse use of Gramscian concepts across disciplines.