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Zusatztext 86703900 Informationen zum Autor Peter D Thomas is lecturer in the history of political thought at Brunel University. He has previously studied and worked at the Universities of Queensland, Naples, Berlin and Amsterdam. He has published widely on Marxist political theory and philosophy, the history of political thought and the history of philosophy and is an editor of the journal Historical Materialism: research in critical Marxist theory. Klappentext Though claimed by disparate schools of thought, Peter Thomas shows Gramsci is best understood as deepening the classical Marxist tradition. Vorwort Features in Historical Materialism Promotion targeting left academic journals Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Zusammenfassung Though claimed by disparate schools of thought, Peter Thomas shows Gramsci is best understood as deepening the classical Marxist tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextPrefaceChapter One The Moment of Reading 'Capital'1.1. 'I can only think of Gramsci...'1.2. Reading 'Capital' in its moment1.3. 'The last great theoretical debate of Marxism'1.3.1. Althusserianism1.3.2. Gramscianism1.4. Marxist philosophy1.4.1. 'A new philosophy of praxis'1.4.2. 'A new practice of philosophy'1.4.3. Marxism and philosophy1.5. The Althusserian and Gramscian moments1.5.1. Gramsci's organic concepts1.5.2. An enduring encounter1.5.3. Marxist philosophy today1.6. Philosophy, hegemony and the state: 'metaphysical event' and 'philosophical fact'Chapter Two Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci?2.1. Incompletion and reconstruction2.2. A theoretical toolbox?2.3. 'Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci'2.4. 1+1=32.5. Detours via detours2.6. The emergence of hegemony...2.7. ...and its deformation2.8. Three versions of hegemony in the West2.9. Political society + civil society = state2.10. Shadows of Croce2.11. East and West, past and present2.12. Antinomies of the united front2.13. The spectre of Kautsky2.14. A labyrinth within a labyrinth?Chapter Three 'A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma'? On the Literary Form of the Prison Notebooks3.1. Traces of the past3.1.1. An arbitrary and mechanical hypostatisation of the moment of hegemony3.1.2. A strategy of detours3.1.3. State, integral state, political society3.1.4. Base and superstructure, superstructures and Ideologies3.2. Code language3.2.1. A helmet of Hades?3.2.2. From 'm.' to the 'philosophy of praxis'3.3. Hieroglyphs3.3.1. 'Für ewig'3.3.2. Three phases of work3.3.2.1. First phase3.3.2.2. Second phase3.3.2.3. Third phase3.4. Incompletion: a work in progress3.4.1. Fragmentary philology3.4.2. An anti-philosophical novel3.5. An unfinished dialogue3.5.1. The education of the educator3.5.2. Necessary incompletion3.6. An Ariadne's thread3.6.1. Preliminary philology3.6.2. Differential temporalities3.6.3. A modern classicChapter Four Contra the Passive Revolution4.1. The 'integral state'4.2. The long nineteenth century4.3. The birth of civil society4.4. Passive revolution4.5. War of position4.6. 'War of position' versus 'war of movement'4.7. Two phases of passive revolution4.8. Duration versus historical epoch4.9. Crisis of authority4.10. Modernity as passive revolution?Chapter Five Civil and Political Hegemony5.1. Consent versus coercion5.1.1. 'Political leadership becomes an aspect of domination'5.1.2. The 'dual perspective'5.2. Civil society versus the state5.2.1. Superstructural 'levels'5.2.2. 'The concept of civil society as used in these notes...'5.2.3. The state as the 'truth' of civil society5.2.4. The 'particularity' of the integral state5.2.5. Civil society as the 'secret' of the state5.2.6. Political society sive the state?5.2.7. Attributes of the integral state5.2.8. The 'location' of hegemonyChapter Six 'The Realisation of Hegemony'6...
