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Some of Italy's most important Gransci scholars offer thoughts, reflections, and engagements with the Sardinian's life and works.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: History
1 Gramsci: From Socialism to Communism
Leonardo Rapone
2 Antonio Gramsci: The Prison Years
Angelo d’Orsi
Part 2: Theories of History
3 The Crisis of European Civilization in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci
Giuseppe Vacca
4 Notes on Gramsci’s Theory of History
Marcello Montanari
5 The Layers of History and Politics in Gramsci
Vittorio Morfino
Part 3: Communism
6 Gramsci and Marx: Notes and Reflections
Stefano Petrucciani
7 Gramsci, the October Revolution and Its “Translation” in the West
Guido Liguori
8 On the Transition to Communism
Alberto Burgio
Part 4: Hegemony
9 Gramsci: Political Scientis
Michele Prospero
10 The “Prison Notebooks”: Hegemony and Civil Society
Giuseppe Cospito
11 On the Productive Use of Hegemony (Laclau, Hall, Chatterjee)
Michele Filippini
Part 5: Historiography
12 The Influence and Legacy of Antonio Gramsci in Twentieth-Century Italy
Marzio Zanantoni
13 The International Historiography on Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century
Davide Cadeddu
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Index
About the author
Davide Cadeddu, Ph.D. (2004), is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Milan. He has published articles and monographs on Italian contemporary political theories, including Reimagining Democracy (Springer, 2012).
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Some of Italy's most important Gransci scholars offer thoughts, reflections, and engagements with the Sardinian's life and works.
