Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks

✍ Scribed by Francesca Antonini (editor), Aaron Bernstein (editor), Lorenzo Fusaro (editor), Robert Jackson (editor)

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 543
• Series: (Historical Materialism)
• Edition: Reprint
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellectuals of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsci's texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsci's 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 'great and terrible' 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.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Foreword (Showstack Sassoon)
‎Acknowledgements
‎Note on the Text
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction: Gramsci Past and Present (Antonini, Bernstein, Fusaro and Jackson)
‎Part 1. Global Gramsci: Gramscian Geographies
‎Chapter 1. Gramsci as a Historical Geographical Materialist (Loftus)
‎Chapter 2. Neoliberalism as Passive Revolution? Insights from the Egyptian Experience (Roccu)
‎Chapter 3. The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: ‘Past and Present’ of Thailand’s Organic Crisis (Buddharaksa)
‎Part 2. Language and Translation
‎Chapter 4. Gramsci: Structure of Language, Structure of Ideology (Boothman)
‎Chapter 5. Hegemonic Language: The Politics of Linguistic Phenomena (Sućeska)
‎Chapter 6. Translations of the Prison Notebooks into Polish: A Gramscian Analysis (Wróblewska)
‎Part 3. Gramsci and the Marxian Legacy
‎Chapter 7. Time and Revolution in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (Frosini)
‎Chapter 8. From Marx’s Diesseitigkeit to Gramsci’s terrestrità assoluta (Bernstein)
‎Chapter 9. Interpreting the Present from the Past: Gramsci, Marx and the Historical Analogy (Antonini)
‎Part 4. Subalternity between Pre-modernity and Modernity
‎Chapter 10. We Good Subalterns (Thomas)
‎Chapter 11. Subalternity and the National-Popular: A Brief Genealogy of the Concepts (Freeland)
‎Chapter 12. What Can We Learn from Gramsci Today? Migrant Subalternity and the Refugee Movements: Perspectives from the Lampedusa in Hamburg (Meret)
‎Part 5. Postcolonial and Anthropological Approaches
‎Chapter 13. Back to the South: Revisiting Gramsci’s Southern Question in the Light of Subaltern Studies (Conelli)
‎Chapter 14. Resisting Orientalism: Gramsci and Foucault in Counterpoint (Vandeviver)
‎Chapter 15. The Changing Meanings of People’s Politics: Gramsci and Anthropology from Subaltern Classes to Contemporary Struggles (Ciavolella)
‎Part 6. Culture, Ideology, Religion
‎Chapter 16. Religion, Common Sense, and Good Sense in Gramsci (Chino)
‎Chapter 17. Past and Present: Popular Literature (Pohn-Lauggas)
‎Chapter 18. The ‘Mummification of Culture’ in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (Jackson)
‎Part 7. Historical Capitalism and World History
‎Chapter 19. Gramsci and the Rise of Capitalism (Douet)
‎Chapter 20. The Gramscian Moment in International Political Economy (Fusaro)
‎Chapter 21. Rethinking Fordism (Settis)
‎Part 8. Readings of Gramsci
‎Chapter 22. Between Belonging and Originality: Norberto Bobbio’s Interpretation of Gramsci (Panichi)
‎Chapter 23. The Diffusion of Gramsci’s Thought in the ‘Peripheral West’ of Latin America (Cuppi)
‎Chapter 24. An Imaginary Gramscianism? Early French Gramscianism and the Quest for ‘Marxist Humanism’ (1947–65) (Crézégut)
‎Chapter 25. Althusser, Gramsci, and Machiavelli: Encounters and Mis-encounters (Neubauer)
‎References
‎Index of Names
‎Index of Subjects