Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought

Zusammenfassung This is an interpretative and evaluative study of the thought of Antonio Gramsci! the founding father of the Italian Communist Party who died in 1937 after ten years of imprisonment. The book provides a reappraisal of Gramsci as a thinker and of the dialectical approach as a mode of inquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Gramsci's Crocean critique of Croces's philosophy; 2. Croce and the theory and practice of criticism; 3. Gramsci's methodological criticism of Bukharin's sociology; 4. Bukharin and the theory and practice of science; 5. Gramsci's dialectical interpretation of Machiavelli's politics; 6. Gramsci's political translation of Hegelian-Marxian dialectic; 7. Hegel and the theory and practice of dialectic; 8. Gramsci and the evaluation of Marxism; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: M. A. Finocchiaro, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2002
• EAN: 9780521892698
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89269-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education