Gramsci's Political Thought (Historical Materialism Book)

Book annotation not available for this title.**Title:** Gramsci's Political Thought**Author:** Coutinho, Carlos Nelson/ Sette-Camara, Pedro (TRN)/ Buttigieg, Joseph A. (FRW)**Publisher:** Brill Academic Pub**Publication Date:** 2012/07/01**Number of Pages:** 198**Binding Type:** HARDCOVER**Library of Congress:** 2012008347 Contents 8 Foreword 10 Preface 16 Chapter One Youth, a Contradictory Formation: 1910–18 18 1.1. Sardinia 18 1.2. The encounter with Croce and Gentile 20 1.3. Gramsci turns away from the Marxism of the Second International 24 Chapter Two Workers’ Democracy and Factory-Councils: 1919–20 30 2.1. L’Ordine Nuovo 30 2.2. Gramsci and Bordiga 34 2.3. The defeat of the councils 37 Chapter Three Passage to Maturity: 1921–6 40 3.1. From the foundation of the PCd’I to the fight against fascism 40 3.2. The struggle against sectarianism 48 3.3. The first formulations of the concept of hegemony 54 Chapter Four Methodological Observations on the Prison Notebooks 63 4.1. The systematic nature of the Notebooks 64 4.2. Gramsci’s place in the evolution of Marxism 67 4.3. Gramsci as a critic of politics 71 4.4. On the relations between politics, economics and social totality 78 4.5. Gramsci’s philosophical conceptions 83 Chapter Five The ‘Extended’ Theory of the State 94 5.1. The concept of ‘civil society’ 94 5.2. ‘Regulated society’ and the end of the state 104 Chapter Six Socialist Strategy in the ‘West’ 110 6.1. War of movement and war of position 110 6.2. On the concept of passive revolution 117 6.3. From Gramsci’s proposal of a ‘constituent assembly’ to Togliatti’s ‘progressive democracy’ 122 Chapter Seven The Party as ‘Collective Intellectual’ 127 Chapter Eight The Current Relevance and Universality of Gramsci 137 8.1. Another socialist model 138 8.2. A radical conception of democracy 142 8.3. With Gramsci, beyond Gramsci 147 Appendix One General Will and Democracy in Rousseau, Hegel and Gramsci 154 1.1. The priority of the public 155 1.2. Rousseau and the general will 157 1.3. Hegel and the determinations of will 161 1.4. Gramsci and hegemony as contract 167 Appendix Two The Neoliberal Age: Passive Revolution or Counter-Reformation? 173 2.1. Counter-reformation 174 2.2. The welfare-state as passive revolution 175 2.3. Neoliberalism as counter-reformation 177 2.4. Transformism 178 Appendix Three Gramsci and Brazil 180 3.1. Reception 181 3.2. Uses 191 References 206 Name Index 212 In Gramsci's Political Thought, Carlos Nelson Coutinho offers an analysis of the evolution of the political thought of Antonio Gramsci. Focusing on central concepts of the Prison Notebooks and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, the book also demonstrates that Gramsci's ideas continue to be relevant resources for understanding the controversies of our present time. Written by a leading Brazilian Marxist theorist, Gramsci's Political Thought provides one of the most succinct and theoretically focused introductions to the thought of Antonio Gramsci available internationally. Introduction -- Youth, A Contradictory Formation: 1910-18 -- Workers' Democracy And Factory-councils: 1919-20 -- Passage To Maturity: 1921-6 -- Methodological Observations On The Prison Notebooks -- The 'extended' Theory Of The State -- Socialist Strategy In The 'west' -- The Party As 'collective Intellectual' -- The Current Relevance And Universality Of Gramsci. By Carlos Nelson Coutinho ; Translated From The Portuguese By Pedro Sette-câmara ; With A Foreword By Joseph A. Buttigieg. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Offers an analysis of the evolution of the political thought of Antonio Gramsci - the author of "Letters from Prison". Focusing on central concepts developed by the Italian thinker, this book demonstrates that Gramsci's ideas continue to be relevant resources for understanding the controversies of our present time. Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Gramsci's Political Thought Author: Coutinho, Carlos Nelson/ Sette-Camara, Pedro (TRN)/ Buttigieg, Joseph A. (FRW) Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Publication Date: 2012/07/01 Number of Pages: 198 Binding Type: HARDCOVER Library of Congress: 2012008347