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1 A ANTONIO GRAMSCI Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers Edited by James Martin Volume I Intellectual and Political Context London and New York

2 Preface Acknowledgements Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xv xvii xxiii General Introduction 1 VOLUME I INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT Introduction 10 PART 1 The young Gramsci 13 1 A new look at the young Gramsci 15 CARL LEVY 2 On Gramsci's theater criticism 33 ROBERT S. DOMBROSKI 3 Gramsci and Gobetti 60 PAOLO SPRIANO PART 2 Intellectual and political influences 83 4 Gramsci and Italian political culture 85 NORBERTO BOBBIO Vll

3 5 From Spaventa to Gramsci 93 PAUL PICCONE 6 Gramsci, Croce and the Italian political tradition 127 RICHARD BELLAMY 7 Two views of the Revolution: Gramsci and Sorel, DARROW SCHECTER 8 Gramsci and Lenin ALISTAIR DAVIDSON PART 3 The factory council struggles, Antonio Gramsci and the soviet experiment in Italy 199 THOMAS R. BATES 10 A history of the Turinese communists written by a liberal 213 PIERO GOBETTI 11 Gramsci, Gentile and the theory of the ethical state in Italy 225 DARROW SCHECTER 12 Factory councils, Gramsci and the industrialists 245 FRANKLIN ADLER 13 The ideology of labor and capitalist rationality in Gramsci 269 ENZO RUTIGLIANO PART 4 Communism and Fascism Antonio Gramsci and the Bolshevization of the PCI 281 THOMAS R. BATES 15 Towards the Prison Notebooks: the evolution of Gramsci's thinking on political organization WALTER L. ADAMSON 16 The Gramsci-Trotsky question ( ) 320 FRANK ROSENGARTEN 17 Gramsci's interpretation of Fascism 354 WALTER L. ADAMSON Vlll

4 VOLUME II MARXISM, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS Introduction PART 5 Marxism as a philosophy of praxis 5 18 Theory and practice in Gramsci's Marxism 7 JOHN MERRINGTON 19 Gramsci's Hegelian Marxism 36 PAUL PICCONE 20 Interpretive sociology and the philosophy of praxis: comparing Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci 49 GERSHON SHAFIR 21 The concept of nature in Gramsci 62 BENEDETTO FONTANA 22 Gramsci and the contemporary debate on Marxism 85 D. P. DIMITRAKOS PART 6 Gramsci's 'anti-croce' Antonio Gramsci's reformulation of Benedetto Croce's speculative idealism 117 BEVERLY L. KAHN 24 Gramsci's Crocean Marxism 139 MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO PART 7 Epistemology and science Gramsci, Marxism and philosophy 159 RICHARD D. WOLFF 26 Gramsci's concept of constitution 172 THOMAS NEMETH IX

5 27 Science and praxis in Gramsci's critique of Bukharin 191 MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO 28 Gramsci's realism 216 ESTEVE MORERA PART 8 The concept of hegemony The concept of 'egemonia' in the thought of Antonio Gramsci: some notes on interpretation 229 GWYN A. WILLIAMS 30 Gramsci and the theory of hegemony 245 THOMAS R. BATES 31 Hegemony and consciousness in the thought of Antonio Gramsci 263 JOSEPH V. FEMIA 32 Hegemony and ideology in Gramsci 287 CHANTAL MOUFFE 33 The grammar of hegemony 319 PETER IVES PART 9 State and civil society The antinomies of Antonio Gramsci 339 PERRY ANDERSON 35 Gramsci's subversion of the language of politics 411 ANNE SHOWSTACK SASSOON 36 Gramsci on civil society 422 JOSEPH A. BUTTIGIEG 37 Gramsci, civil society and bureaucracy 450 GEOFFREY HUNT 38 Gramsci's Marxism and the concept of Homo Oeconomicus 465 GEOFFREY HUNT 39 Gramsci and the politics of civil society 478 WALTER L. ADAMSON

6 VOLUME III THE PARTY INTELLECTUALS, CULTURE AND Introduction 1 PART 10 The theory of intellectuals 5 40 Revolutionary contradictions: Antonio Gramsci and the problem of intellectuals 7 JEROME KARABEL 41 Ideological superstructures in Gramsci and Mao Tse-Tung 53 NIGEL TODD 42 Towards a sociology of intellectuals: a structural analysis of Gramsci's Marxist theory 63 LEONARDO SALAMINI 43 The people, intellectuals and specialized knowledge 94 ANNE SHOWSTACK SASSOON 44 Between ethics and politics: Gramsci's theory of intellectuals 124 JAMES MARTIN 45 The social role of intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance 145 MARGARET L. KING PART 11 Culture and language Culture and politics in the work of Antonio Gramsci 167 MARCIA LANDY 47 Antonio Gramsci's sociology of literature 189 WILLIAM Q. BOELHOWER 48 A grammatical introduction to Gramsci's political theory 212 PETER IVES 49 The official and popular in Gramsci and Bakhtin 231 CRAIG BRANDIST XI

7 PART 12 On education Antonio Gramsci and the school as hegemonic 251 HAROLD ENTWISTLE 51 The whalebone in the corset: Gramsci on education, culture and change 267 PHILIP SIMPSON 52 Beyond "reform or revolution": notes on political education in Gramsci, Habermas and Arendt 289 WALTER L. ADAMSON PART 13 The politics of subalternity From the periphery of modernity: Antonio Gramsci's theory of subordination and hegemony 321 NADIA URBINATI 54 Classes in southern Italy: Salvemini's, Dorso's and Gramsci's analyses 342 GABRIELLA TURNATURI AND GIOVANNI LODI 55 Gramsci, the peasantry and popular culture 385 ALASTAIR DAVIDSON PART 14 Gramsci and the Communist Party Gramsci's presence 403 FEDERICO MANCINI AND GIORGIO GALLI 57 Gramsci and the Italian Communist Party 415 STEPHEN WHITE 58 Gramsci's Marxism: beyond Lenin and Togliatti 432 PAUL PICCONE 59 Gramsci: an alternative communism? 459 MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO Xll

8 60 Gramsci, the Via Italiana, and the classical Marxist-Leninist approach to revolution 482 JOSEPH V. FEMIA 61 Gramsci, Eurocommunism and the Comintern 505 PETER GIBBON VOLUME IV CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS Introduction 1 PART 15 Reviews and commentaries 5 62 The varying seasons of Gramscian studies 7 ALISTAIR B. DAVIDSON 63 Reading Gramsci in English: observations on the reception of Antonio Gramsci in the English speaking world GEOFF ELEY 64 Gramsci and Marxism in Britain 61 DAVID FORGACS 65 Gramsci in France and Italy: a review of the literature 81 CHANTAL MOUFFE AND ANNE SHOWSTACK SASSOON 66 The Gramsci phenomenon: some reflections 116 JOSEPH V. FEMIA PART 16 Political theory Recasting Marxism: hegemony and new political movements 135 ERNESTO LACLAU AND CHANTAL MOUFFE 68 Who practices hegemony? class division and the subject of politics 154 JOHN ROSENTHAL 69 Gramsci and democracy 177 ESTEVE MORERA 70 Gramsci and Walzer on the intellectual as social critic 191 RICHARD BELLAMY Xlll

9 PART 17 Political analysis Using Gramsci for women: feminism and the Quebec State, HEATHER JON MARONEY 72 Gramsci and us 227 STUART HALL 73 Thailand in Gramscian perspective 239 JOHN GIRLING 74 Gramsci and the legitimization of the State: the case of the Senegalese passive revolution 257 ROBERT FATTON PART 18 Cultural studies Gramsci's relevance for the study of race and ethnicity 281 STUART HALL 76 After Gramsci 310 COLIN MERCER 77 The concept of cultural hegemony: problems and possibilities 324 T. J. JACKSON LEARS PART 19 International relations theory Gramsci, hegemony and international relations: an essay on method 357 ROBERT W. COX 79 Engaging Gramsci: international relations theory and the new Gramscians 373 RANDALL D. GERMAIN AND MICHAEL KENNY 80 Understanding IR: understanding Gramsci 399 CRAIG N. MURPHY XIV

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