Preface. Gramsci on Caesarism and Bonapartism (original) (raw)

Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity

Historical Materialism Book Series, vol. 215, Leiden-Boston, Brill. * * * In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci’s thought. Capitalising 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 Gramsci’s reflections on hegemony and on its transformations across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsci’s understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it sheds a meaningful light also on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to contemporary USSR. Finally, yet importantly, such an analysis illuminates Gramsci’s approach towards the Marxian legacy. Reviews: - J. Dal Maso, Gramsci, o cesarismo e a política de massas [available online: https://www.esquerdadiario.com.br/Gramsci-o-cesarismo-e-a-politica-de-massas\]

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.

Why Gramsci's Time Has Come (Again

While never really disappearing from the canon of postcolonial thought, Gramsci's influence faded in the 1990s and early 2000s. This paper offers an explanation of this change to the trajectory of his legacy. I pay particular attention to conceptions of power as reaching deeply and unconsciously into subjectivity, which especially dominated the intellectual landscape of North American during the 1980s and 1990s. There is in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, however, an under-recognized aspect of empowerment of those who are subject to the ideas of ruling elites, particularly in his approach to hegemony. Gramsci offers an antidote to the more fatalistic approaches to the unconscious sources of political legitimacy and institutional power that have comprised a dominant intellectual current in the social sciences and humanities during at least the past three decades.

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.

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...