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The contributors to
Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.
List of contents
Note on Sources ix
Preface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson xi
Introduction / Roberto Dainotto 1
1. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas 17
2. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio 38
3. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan 60
4. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino 77
5. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio 93
6. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene 113
7. Some Reflections on Gramsci:
The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian 140
8. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning 158
9. Gramsci on
la questione del negri:
Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy 165
10. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco 179
11. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and
Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh 190
12. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang 204
13. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi 224
Works Cited 241
Contributors 259
Index 263
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Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, editors
Summary
The contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.
