A Companion to Antonio Gramsci Essays on History and Theories of History, Politics and Historiography (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Gramsci's thought realize a sort of intellectual account of the Gramscian historiography. "In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Gramsci's thought realize an intellectual account of the Gramscian historiography. The volume is organized into five parts. In the first, an updated reconstruction of his biographical events is offered. The second part provides three different perspectives permitting an analysis of the ideas and theories of history which emerge from Gramsci's writings. In the third section as well as the fourth section, the most explicitly political themes are considered. Finally, in the last part the timelines of twentieth century historiography in Italy are traced and a picture is painted of the reasons for the development of the principal problems surrounding the international literary output on Gramsci. 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"-- Provided by publisher A Companion to Antonio Gramsci: Essays on History and Theories of History, Politics and Historiography Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: History 1 Gramsci: From Socialism to Communism 2 Antonio Gramsci: the Prison Years Part 2: Theories of History 3 The Crisis of European Civilization in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci 4 Notes on Gramsci's Theory of History 5 The Layers of History and the Politics in Gramsci Part 3: Communism 6 Gramsci's Antidogmatic Reading of Marx 7 Gramsci, the October Revolution and its "Translation" in the West 8 On the Transition to Communism Part 4: Hegemony 9 Gramsci: Political Scientist 10 The "Prison Notebooks": Hegemony and Civil Society 11 On the Productive Use of Hegemony (Laclau, Hall, Chatterjee) Part 5: Historiography 12 The Influence and Legacy of Antonio Gramsci in Twentieth-Century Italy 13 The International Historiography on Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century Bibliographic Abbreviations Index