Gramsci Contested

Guido Liguori is Professor of the History of Contemporary Political Thought at the University of Calabria, and President of the International Gramsci Society. His many authoritative works on Gramsci and the Italian Communist Party include Gramsci's Pathways.

“To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, to write the historiography of an individual means nothing less than to write the general history of their party and nation from a monographic viewpoint. Guido Liguori’s Gramsci Contested accomplishes this feat.”—Brant Roberts, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

• Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1 Gramsci in the Writings of His Contemporaries (1922-1938)1 The Liberal History of a Sardinian Communist2 Off the 'High Road'3 The Sentence4 Prison5 Death6 'Antonio Gramsci, Leader of the Italian Working Class'7 'An Irreparable Loss'8 Between Carducci and Pascoli2 The Identity and Tradition of the Party (1939-1947)1 Gramsci and Togliatti2 The 'New Party' and the Intellectuals3 'Gramsci's Politics'4 Politics and Culture5 Between Croce and Marx3 Diamat and the Notebooks (1948-1955)1 The Cold War and the Prison Notebooks2 Gramsci's 'Anti-Fascism'3 Interpreting the Notebooks4 Dogmatic and Non-dogmatic Marxisms5 Dissonances6 The History of the Italian Communist Party7 A Legendary Comrade8 First Evaluations and New Perspectives4 Gramsci and the Italian Road to Socialism (1956-59)1 19562 'Too Few Gramscians'3 Gramsci's Relevance4 Gramsci and Leninism5 The Rome Conference6 The 'Return to Marx'7 The Future City8 The Debate on Italian Unification5 From the 'New History' of the Communist Party to the Crisis of Historicism (1960-9)1 The Late Togliatti2 The 'New History' of the Italian Communist Party3 Three Biographies4 The 'Giovane Critica'5 The Crisis of Historicism6 Gramsci and Civil Society7 The 'Historicisation' of Gramsci8 Within the International Communist Movement9 Historicism and the Communist Party6 The Golden Age (1970-1975)1 Gramsci Back on His Feet2 Workerism and Americanism3 Gramsci and the Soviets4 The Concept of Hegemony5 The Primacy of the Political6 Gramsci's Marxism7 Gramsci and the State8 Gramsci and the 'New Left'9 The 'Gerratana Edition'7 The Apogee and Crisis of Gramscian Culture (1976-1977)1 The Pluralism Debate2 Hegemony and Democracy3 The Frattocchie Seminar4 The Florence Congress5 The Crisis8 Ten Years of 'Blackout' (1978-1986)1 The Crisis of Marxism2 Gramsci and 'Organicism'3 Prediction and Praxis4 Intellectuals and Power5 Interpretations of Hegemony6 In the 'Factory' of the Notebooks7 Gramsci, Religion, Catholicism9 Between Politics and Philology (1987-1996)1 Gramsci and the Communist Party in 19872 Gramsci in the World3 The Fiftieth Anniversary of a 'Classic'4 Gramscians and Post-Gramscians5 Between Politics and History6 A Post-communist Gramsci7 Gramsci, Togliatti, Stalin8 Gramsci, Tania, Sraffa9 Towards a New Edition of Gramsci's Works10 Liberal Democrat or Critical Communist? (1997-2000)1 National and International2 The Return of Civil Society3 Taylorism and Fordism4 Gramsci's Method5 The Story of a Prisoner6 Gramsci Contested at the End of the Millennium11 Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century (2000-2008)1 For Gramsci2 Gramscian Research3 Gramsci's Translatability4 Renewed Interest5 Gramsci and Politics12 Gramsci's Return (2009-2012)1 New Working Tools2 On the 'Philosophy of Praxis'3 Gramsci's 'Fortune'4 Creative Uses5 Stories and Histories6 The Political and Theoretical Journey of the Prison Years7 The Future GramsciBibliographyIndex