Gramsci - Recent Trends in European Philosophy Series -1 The New Mission Possible: Reflections from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (original) (raw)
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Using Gramsci: A New Approach, Pluto Press, London-New York, 2017.
2017
This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini proposes a new approach based on the analysis of previously ignored concepts in his works, creating a book which stands apart. Including chapters on ideology, the individual, collective organisms, society, crisis and temporality, Using Gramsci offers a new pattern in Gramscian studies aimed to speak to the broader audience of social sciences scholars. The tools that are provided in this book extend the uses of Gramsci beyond the field of political theory and Marxism, while remaining firmly rooted in his writings. Working from the original Italian texts, Filippini also examines the more traditional areas of Gramsci’s thought, including hegemony, organic intellectuals and civil society.
PAST AND PRESENT. Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci
International Conference 18-19 June 2015 King’s College London (Strand Campus*) *Venue map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx This International Conference on the thought of Antonio Gramsci will bring together a new generation of 45 scholars from 16 countries working on Gramscian themes in order to engage closely with his writings. The conference is open to all, however registration is essential if you would like to attend. To register, please send an email to: gramsciconference2015@gmail.com. [This programme will be updated - so please check back before conference for latest version]
A Companion to Antonio Gramsci (Brill 2020)
Brill, 2020
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.
Cover page and contents, International Gramsci Journal No.2 2010
2010
The International Gramsci Journal (IGJ) is produced in electronic format. It aims to publish scholarship on aspects of Antonio Gramsci’s life and writings, and on contemporary applications of his theories to the modern world. IGJ aims to publish in Italian, Spanish and English. We publish both peer-reviewed articles and shorter “Gramsci notes”. In the future we aim to publish book reviews of works that employ Gramscian concepts and theories. As a new journal IGJ relies on the efforts of a small group of colleagues in Australia, but we aim to be a global journal. To make IGJ work we need your help. If you have a piece of writing that you think would be suitable for IGJ, or have students who you could encourage to submit to IGJ, we would welcome the opportunity to review and publish new scholarship or shorter pieces in translation. IGJ No. 2 for the first time has original research in Italian, Spanish and English. On behalf of the editorial team I hope that you find something of inter...
Antonio Gramsci: Toward an Intellectual Biography
Telos, 1977
Alastair Davidson's new biography of Gramsci is on the whole balanced in judgment, straightforward in style, and, unlike many other works on Gramsci, departs from no sectarian parti pris. As a general introduction for the uninitiated, it is eminently readable without being simplistic, flawed only by a propensity to toss off casually the term dialectical to embellish rank truisms (e.g., "Naturally there was a dialectical relation between how he felt and what he wrote at the time"). If Davidson's narrative will disappoint those expecting to learn something new either conceptually or factually, it nevertheless has the virtue of presenting a clear snapshot of the foremost Italian Marxist; then again, snapshots are by nature superficial. Davidson opens his book with an obvious question: Why another biography of Gramsci? Aside from the fact that more information has become available since the Cammett and Fiori volumes, Davidson quite rightly asserts the need for an intellectual biography, one that would reconstitute Gramsci's theoretical development in light of his political engagement within the twentieth-century Italian historical context. This certainly struck a responsive chord. Given the present "Gramsci craze," what we clearly do not need is simply another work descriptively laying out what Gramsci the man did and wrote, but rather a critical analysis that might: (1) rigorously treat formative intellectual influences upon the young and imprisoned Gramsci, while at the same time lending interpretive coherence to the often disjointed, fragmentary nature of Gramsci's writings; (2) dispassionately reconstruct the historical framework within which he operated (long-term developmental patterns, opposing forces, contending ideologies, leading beliefs, etc.); and (3) judge the theoretical and strategic adequacy of Gramsci in light of all this. Measured against such criteria, Davidson's book falls short of what one might reasonably expect. While he is at times effective in chronologically specifying some of the mediations between theory and practice in Gramsci's life, his study as a whole lacks theoretical and historical depth. If this is, as he suggests, an intellectual biography, it is not a critical one. Too intent upon, as he puts it, doing "justice to a great man," Davidson instead does injustice to the reader who seeks to go beyond the narrowly descriptive. Not once in more than 270 pages can the author find a single flaw or, for that matter, make a significant judgment as to Gramsci's perception, analysis or practice. Theoretically, we are offered wooden caricatures of Spaventa, Labriola and Croce; conceptual affinities or divergences with Gramsci are shallow in treatment. Historically, we are one-sidedly presented with Gramsci's analysis of events, as if it were a foregone conclusion that such analysis was itself accurate or, in the heat of battle and polemics, even intended to be accurate. Biography, especially intellectual biography, is no mean task. Not only must the author have an intimate knowledge of the personality in question, but an objective and intuitive sense of his times-the effects of major events, changes in public opinion, nuances, the gray areas of life. While Davidson demonstrates an admirable command of Gramsci and material immediately related to Gramsci, he shows little comprehension of the broader historical context-not even phenomena about which Gramsci wrote and upon which Gramsci acted (the peculiar nature of Turin's industrial development, the 1919-20 biennio rosso, the rise of fascism and its subsequent consolidation of power). One gets the distinct impression that Davidson, outside of Gramsci proper, has yet to consult any primary sources (newspapers of the
A specter is haunting the globalized world: the specter of Antonio Gramsci. Too many people evoke it: subversive intellectuals and rapper philosophers, staid political analysts and acute scholars of cultural phenomena. Survived by the defeat of his official commentators, the author of the Prison Notebooks continues to enjoy a popularity that seems a posthumous triumph. At the crossroads of narrative form and argumentative rigor, Michele Filippini examines the guidelines of the many gramscisms. From the rebel languages of African- American communities to the hegemonic strategies of neo-conservative think tanks, from the reflections on postcolonialism to the folds of mass culture, from left to right, from right to left, an unprecedented and unknown portrait of Gramsci comes out from this analysis. An iconography light-years away from the liturgical black and white image of the twentieth century. The cosmopolitan, metropolitan, prophetic, cinematographic, radical, reactionary, distorted, hallucinatory, paranoid, but always pop interpretations considered in these pages give back to us the image of a Global Gramsci.