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