Gramsci in the World

Roberto M. Dainotto is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.Fredric Jameson is Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University.

“Practically from the first to the last page, this is a fabulous book. Not only does it attest to the productive interdisciplinary use of Gramsci's conceptual instruments in the analysis of contemporary sociocultural and political developments across many global regions; it also underscores the fact that the critico-philological reconstructions of Gramsci's theoretical frameworks are far from complete. Newcomers to Gramscian studies-as well as experienced scholars-will profit from this extraordinary collection of essays. It reflects a most capacious editorial spirit anchored in creative autonomy, historical integrity, and transnational sensitivities.” - Renate Holub, author of (Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism) “Comprehensive in its geographical and historical range, and impressive in its intellectual rigor, theoretical sophistication, and historical sensitivity, Gramsci in the World locates questions surrounding Gramsci's ideas within debates that are central to much of contemporary theoretical, moral, intellectual, and political writing. A significant and necessary contribution to Gramsci scholarship, this volume demonstrates that his ideas and writing will continue to exert a deep influence in the twenty-first century.” - Benedetto Fontana, author of (Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli) “This collection of essays, edited by Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, is a timely and valuable contribution to cultural studies, political and social theory, postcolonial studies, as well as generally to the history of the Left and particularly to the history of Marxism.” - Mihaela Czobor-Lupp (Perspectives on Politics) “Taken together, the essays in [Gramsci in the World] highlight the numerous complexities and dimensions to Gramsci’s writings, and the various reasons why his unique approach to Marxist analysis and revolutionary praxis influenced, or in many cases did not influence, leftist intellectuals and militants....” - Brian Griffith (H-Italy, H-Net Reviews) “The goal of Gramsci in the World is to put forward ‘different pragmatics’ of how scholars accept or reject Gramscian thinking for their interests.... It does not simply add non-Western case studies into analysis, but changes how we think about a range of periods and geographies.” - Thomas Furse (Global Intellectual History) "[Gramsci in the World] will interest Gramsci scholars, theorists of social change and revolution, and political activists." - J. C. Berg (Choice)

• Note on Sources  ixPreface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson  xiIntroduction / Roberto Dainotto  11. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas  172. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio  383. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan  604. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino  775. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio  936. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene  1137. Some Reflections on Gramsci: The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian  1408. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning  1589. Gramsci on la questione del negri: Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy  16510. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco  17911. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh  19012. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang  20413. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi  224Works Cited  241Contributors  259Index  263