Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci

A Diachronic Interpretation of Prison Notebooks

AvGiuseppe Cospito

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Many scholars have recently shown great interest in a diachronic re-examination of Antonio Gramsci’s main theoretical-political categories in the Prison Notebooks. This method would uncover the origins and development of Gramsci’s concepts using the same method that Gramsci himself believed would allow us to grasp ‘the rhythm of thought’ in Marx. The present work embraces this perspective and puts it to work in two ways. Its first part analyzes the relation between structure and superstructure and the concepts of hegemony and the regulated society. Its second part extends the diachronic analysis to the conceptual pairings which represent alternatives to structure-superstructure, encompassing questions of political and cultural organisation as well as the relation between Gramsci and the major proponents of historical materialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin). English translation of Il ritmo del pensiero: per una lettura diacronica dei «Quaderni del carcere» di Gramsci published by Bibliopolis, Naples (2011).

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-29
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:531 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004266322

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Giuseppe Cospito, Ph.D. (1999), University of Turin, is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pavia. He has published monographs and a number of articles on Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, Carlo Cattaneo and Antonio Gramsci.

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A Note on the TextPreface: Questions of Method PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY-POLITICS-ECONOMICS 1. Structure and Superstructures1.1. Working hypothesis 1.2. The ‘Bukharin’ phase (from the party school to Notebook 4, §§ 12 and 15: 1925–30) 1.3. The ‘centrist’ thesis from the end of 1930 (Notebook 4, § 38)1.4. The ‘crisis’ of 1931 (Notebook 7)1.5. Moving beyond the architectural metaphor (Notebook 8: end of 1931 – beginning of 1932) 1.6. The ‘inertia’ of the old formulations (Notebooks 10, 11 and 13: 1932–3)1.7. ‘Unended Quest’ (Notebooks 10, 11, 14, 15 e 17: 1932-35)1.8 Provisional conclusions2. Hegemony2.1. Introduction 2.2. ‘Posing the issue’2.3. Hegemony and civil society2.4. Hegemony and the intellectuals2.5. Hegemony and the party 2.6. The sources of Gramsci’s concept of hegemony2.7. A (re)definition of Gramsci’s concept of hegemony3. Regulated Society3.1. Philosophy-Politics-Economics 3.2. ‘Importuning the texts’3.3. The regulated society ‘from Utopia to science’3.4. Towards a new Reformation?3.5. Gramsci as critic of the ‘critical economy’3.6. Toward ‘a new economic science’PART TWO: THE ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF THE NOTEBOOKS4. The ‘Alternatives’ to Structure-Superstructure 4.1. ‘Quantity and quality’4.2. ‘Content and form’4.3. ‘Objective and subjective’4.4. ‘Historical bloc’5. The Gradual Transformation in Gramsci’s Categories5.1. Methodological premise5.2. Organic centralism; Postilla 5.3. Common sense and/or good sense5.4. Civil society6. Gramsci and the Marxist Tradition6.1. ‘Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works’: Caesarism and Bonapartism6.2. Engels and the Marxist vulgate6.3. Conclusion: Gramsci, from Lenin to MarxBibliographyIndex