Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci

Edited by William K. Carroll, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada

‘The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci provides a rigorous examination and utilization of Gramsci’s contributions to social and political thought. William Carroll has brought together internationally recognized scholars to explore Gramsci’s ideas and to demonstrate their contemporary relevance in debates ranging from hegemony, passive revolution, revolutionary strategy, populism, and education to the organic crises of neoliberalism and climate change – all written in the tradition of historical materialism and emancipatory politics.'

• Contents:1 Introduction: recovering a Gramsci for our times 1William K. CarrollPART I GRAMSCI IN CONTEXT2 Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary 31Nathan Sperber and George Hoare3 Gramsci, Marx, Hegel 48Robert P. Jackson4 ‘The Revolution against “Capital”’: Constancy, changeand collective will in Gramsci’s concepts 66Derek Boothman5 Historico-political dynamics in the Prison Notebooks:passive revolution, relations of force, organic crisis 83Francesca Antonini6 Hegemony as a protean concept 99Elizabeth HumphrysPART II THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS: A NEWPOLITICAL VOCABULARY7 The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramsci’s PrisonNotebooks 118Panagiotis Sotiris8 State, capital and civil society 136Marco Fonseca9 Intellectuals, ideology, and the ethico-political 152Jean-Pierre Reed and Carlos L. Garrido10 Where Trotsky’s horizons stop, Gramsci’s begin: thepassive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity 171Adam David Morton11 War of maneuver and war of position: Gramsci and thedialectic of revolution 189Daniel Egan12 Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsciabout prefiguration 204Dorothea Elena Schoppek13 The Modern Prince and revolutionary strategy 219Alexandros ChrysisPART III GRAMSCI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYSECTION A: PHILOSOPHICAL ANDPOLITICAL-ECONOMIC ISSUES14 Gramsci, post-Marxism and critical realism 240Jonathan Joseph15 Hegemonic projects and cultural political economy 261Bob Jessop16 Fordism, post-Fordism and the imperial mode of living 279Ulrich Brand and Markus WissenSECTION B: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION17 Hegemony, gender and social reproduction 299Anna Sturman18 Cultural studies: the Gramscian current 315Marco Briziarelli and Didarul Islam19 Antonio Gramsci and education 334Peter Mayo20 Hegemony without hegemony: Gramsci, Guha andpost-Western Marxism 350Sourayan MookerjeaSECTION C: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLE21 Social movements and hegemonic struggle 370Laurence Cox22 Hegemonic struggle and right-wing populism 388Owen Worth23 Gramsci and hegemonic struggle in a globalized world 406Thomas MuhrSECTION D: GLOBAL ORGANIC CRISIS24 Transnational neoliberalism in organic crisis 428Henk Overbeek25 Beyond ecocidal capitalism: climate crisis and climate justice 448Kevin SurpriseIndex