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"What the future fortunes of [Gramsci's] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this." -Eric Hobsbawm, from the preface. Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world''s greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world''s preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual biography of the g

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Life of a Reflective Revolutionary -- Part I Historical Context -- 1 Gramsci, the United Front Comintern and Democratic Strategy -- 2 Morbid Symptoms: Gramsci and the Crisis of Liberalism -- Part II Key Debates -- 3 Intellectuals and Masses: Agency and Knowledge in Gramsci -- 4 Gramsci, Language and Pluralism -- Part III Major Conceptual Issues -- 5 Gramsci's Marxism: The 'Philosophy of Praxis' -- 6 Conceptions of Subalternity in Gramsci -- Part IV Contemporary Relevance

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The end -- The beginning -- Schooldays in Sardinia -- University in Turin -- The working journalist -- Into the struggle: L'Ordine Nuovo and the factory councils -- Gramsci the communist -- At Serebranyi Bor -- At the Hotel Lux, Moscow, 1923 -- A Viennese interlude -- Leader by default -- A brief return to Sardinia -- The third Schucht sister -- The Schuchts come to Rome -- First confinement -- The trials begin -- Settling in at Turi di Bari -- Further torments -- Für Ewig: A new sense of purpose -- Visitations and vocations -- Sinking deeper -- Healing through work -- Final years -- Postscript: The Afterlives of Antonio Gramsci -- Notes -- Select Bibliography of works in English by or about Gramsci -- INDEX.

This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramscis process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged. The Gramsci in Notebooks cannot fully account for the young director of LOrdine Nuovo, or for the communist leader. Gramscis development did not occur under conditions of intellectual inflexibility, of absence of evolution. However, there is a strong thread connecting the "political Gramsci" with Gramsci as a "cultivated man." The Sardinian intellectual's life is marked by the drama of World War I, the first mass conflict in which the great scientific discoveries of the previous decades were applied on a large scale and in which millions of peasants and workers were slaughtered. In all of his theoretical formulations, this dual relation, which epitomizes the instrumental use of "simpletons" by ruling classes, goes beyond the military context of the trenches and becomes full-fledged in the fundamental relations of modern capitalist society. In contrast with this notion of social hierarchy, which is deemed natural and unchangeable, Gramsci constantly affirmed the need to overcome the historically determined rupture between intellectual and manual functions, due to which the existence of a priesthood or of a separate caste of specialists in politics and in knowledge is made necessary.

PART ONE – THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY -- 1. The premises of an uninterrupted discourse -- 2. Dialectics versus positivism: the young Gramsci's philosophical background -- 3. Self-education and autonomy of producers -- 4. Lenin and the topicality of revolution -- 5. L'Ordine Nuovo -- 6. The origin and defeat of the Italian revolution -- 7. The party problem -- 8. Revolutionary reflux and reactionary offensive -- PART TWO – THE POLITICAL LEADER -- 9. The new Party -- 10. The Comintern and the "Italian case" -- 11. Toward a new majority -- 12. Gramsci leading the Party -- 13. Theoretical maturity between 1925 and 1926 -- 14. The Congress of Lyon -- PART THREE – THE THEORETICIAN -- 15. From Sardinia's contradictions to the sourther question -- 16. The Notebooks: the difficult beginnings of a "disinterested" work -- 17. Hegemonic relations, productive relations and the subaltern -- 18. Permanent transformism -- 19. Historical premises and congenital contradictions in Italian biography -- 20. "The old dies and the new cannot be born" -- 21. The double revision of Marxism and similarity with Lukács -- 22. Translatability and hegemony -- 23. The philosopher man and the tamed gorilla -- 24. Michels, the intellectuals and the issue of organization -- 25. The dismantling of the old schemes of political art.

Cover -- Halftitle -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The End -- 2 The Beginning -- 3 Schooldays in Sardinia -- 4 University in Turin -- 5 The Working Journalist -- 6 Into the Struggle: L'Ordine Nuovo and the Factory Councils -- 7 Gramsci the Communist -- 8 At Serebranyi Bor -- 9 At the Hotel Lux, Moscow, 1923 -- 10 A Viennese Interlude -- 11 Leader by Default -- 12 A Brief Return to Sardinia -- 13 The Third Schucht Sister -- 14 The Schuchts Come to Rome -- 15 First Confinement -- 16 The Trials Begin -- 17 Settling in at Turi Di Bari -- 18 Further Torments

‎Contents -- ‎Preface for the New Edition -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Foreword (Bobbio) -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. A Country Boy -- ‎Chapter 2. Making the Country Boy an Italian -- ‎Chapter 3. A Philosophy of Praxis -- ‎Chapter 4. '… an International Figure?' -- ‎Chapter 5. A Revolutionary Theory -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index

Gramsci's interpretation of Marxism as a comprehensive conception of the world is the essential theme of this book. The discussion is aimed at illuminating the various ways in which Gramsci applied Marxist thought to political, cultural, and social issues.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. The Gramsci-Trotsky Question -- 2. Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Communist Press in the Fascist Era -- 3. The Contemporary Relevance of Gramsci's Views on the Italian 'Southern Question' -- 4. Antonio Gramsci's Letters from Prison -- 5. Gramsci's Analysis of Canto X of Dante's Inferno -- 6. Gramsci's Path from 'Ploughman' to 'Fertiliser' of History -- 7. Antonio Gramsci and C.L.R. James: Some Intriguing Similarities -- 8. On the Qualities of Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci, Edward Said, and Betty Friedan -- 9. Gramsci in the Caribbean -- 10. Gramscian Influences in Robert Dombroski's Critical Engagement with Marxism -- 11. John Cammett's Writings on Antonio Gramsci and the PCI -- References -- Index.

In this study, Renate Holub attempts to reclaim Antonio Gramsci's theory from classical Marxism, instead placing him in a broader European critical context, alongside the Frankfurt School, phenomenology, and sociolinguistics. Holub emphasizes Gramsci's affinities with the cultural theories of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Bloch, Brecht, Benjamin), and also points out the links between Gramsci's linguistic and phenomenological forms of knowledge. Holub conveys the conceptual and methodological complexity of his work, which is, the author claims, relevant to the construction of today's criti

Bei der gegenwärtigen Suche nach einer tragfähigen Definition von Recht und Rechtskonzeption, unter sich ändernden gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, erscheint die Stimme des Vordenkers Antonio Rosmini. Aufschluss bei der Suche gibt seine Rechtsphilosophie: Hier findet sich die Definierbarkeit von Rosminis Rechtsbegriff, seine fünf konstitutiven Rechtselemente, Subjekt-Aktivität, personale Aktivität, Handlungswert, Handlungserlaubtheit und Rücksichtspflicht. Darüberhinaus erscheinen konzeptionelle Charakteristika in Darstellung der Rechtskonzeption basierend auf Moral und Personalität. -- Eine zweigleisige Rechtskonzeption kann nachgewiesen werden: Im Spannungsbogen steht Rosminis transzendentalphilosophische Argumentation in Kompatibilität mit seiner transzendenzphilosophischen Auffassung aus Theologie und Ontologie. Mit seinem Ansatz könnte es gelingen, Europa multikulturell weiterzudenken und im Recht zu verbinden, um so einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft gerecht werden zu können. / »Foundation of Right in a Multicultural Society. Impulses of Antonio Rosmini« -- The decision to study Antonio Rosmini's »Philosophy of Right« illustrates the search for the fundamental elements of »rights«. According to Rosmini, the concept of rights include the limitation of rights as a corollary of its five constitutive elements. Rosmini's concept of rights -- shows that, while »rights« are themselves an abstract concept, they are not bound by any particular culture because they are grounded on an ontological foundation which are prior to any relation to human organisations.

"Affirming Antonio Gramsci's continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers a comprehensive overview of Gramsci's contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of critical social science, social and political thought, economics and emancipatory politics. Within the tradition of historical materialism, it explores the continuing impact of Gramscian perspectives in the present day. Featuring contributions from eminent scholars, the Companion engages with Gramsci's thought in the broader context of his life, outlining his innovative theoretical and historical analyses of capitalist modernity. Key themes within Gramscian theory are examined such as historical bloc, passive revolution, integral state, and civil society, which elaborate upon the core concept of hegemony. Chapters map out the development of historical materialism and rigorously analyse contemporary issues of urgency including climate breakdown, the rise of far-right populism, and increasing geopolitical tension. Offering a state-of-the-art review of Gramscian theory, this Companion will prove beneficial to academics, researchers and students from across the social sciences and humanities, and will be essential reading for those interested in political economy and political theory, sociology, philosophy, radical and feminist economics, environmental studies, gender studies, and post-colonial and cultural studies"--