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The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci
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.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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.''
– Marcus E. Green, Secretary of the International Gramsci Society
‘Considering the relevance of Antonio Gramsci across the social sciences and humanities, this volume has been long overdue. The various contributions place Gramsci’s work within his own time, develop his key concepts and explore their applicability to contemporary developments. This Companion is an essential touchstone for everyone interested in the continuing importance of this key Marxist thinker.’
– Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK
‘With an impressive range of leading scholars, The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is an enormous contribution to the relevance of Gramscian ideas to contemporary times. The volume is a rich and comprehensive engagement with Gramsci’s social and political thought and emancipatory politics. Placing Gramsci’s historical materialism as an organising pivot, the volume takes the reader on a journey from the political and social milieu in which Gramsci’s ideas came to fruition to his major concepts and, by applying his ideas and modes of analyses to understanding (and changing!) our current times, contemporary Gramscian scholarship. The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is a real tour de force!’
– Michelle Williams, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa
– Marcus E. Green, Secretary of the International Gramsci Society
‘Considering the relevance of Antonio Gramsci across the social sciences and humanities, this volume has been long overdue. The various contributions place Gramsci’s work within his own time, develop his key concepts and explore their applicability to contemporary developments. This Companion is an essential touchstone for everyone interested in the continuing importance of this key Marxist thinker.’
– Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK
‘With an impressive range of leading scholars, The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is an enormous contribution to the relevance of Gramscian ideas to contemporary times. The volume is a rich and comprehensive engagement with Gramsci’s social and political thought and emancipatory politics. Placing Gramsci’s historical materialism as an organising pivot, the volume takes the reader on a journey from the political and social milieu in which Gramsci’s ideas came to fruition to his major concepts and, by applying his ideas and modes of analyses to understanding (and changing!) our current times, contemporary Gramscian scholarship. The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci is a real tour de force!’
– Michelle Williams, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa
Contributors
Contributors include: Francesca Antonini, Derek Boothman, Ulrich Brand, Marco Briziarelli, William K. Carroll, Alexandros Chrysis, Laurence Cox, Daniel Egan, Marco Fonseca, Carlos L. Garrido, George Hoare, Elizabeth Humphrys, Didarul Islam, Robert P. Jackson, Bob Jessop, Jonathan Joseph, Peter Mayo, Sourayan Mookerjea, Adam David Morton, Thomas Muhr, Henk Overbeek, Jean-Pierre Reed, Dorothea Elena Schoppek, Panagiotis Sotiris, Nathan Sperber, Anna Sturman, Kevin Surprise, Markus Wissen, Owen Worth
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction: recovering a Gramsci for our times 1
William K. Carroll
PART I GRAMSCI IN CONTEXT
2 Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary 31
Nathan Sperber and George Hoare
3 Gramsci, Marx, Hegel 48
Robert P. Jackson
4 ‘The Revolution against “Capital”’: Constancy, change
and collective will in Gramsci’s concepts 66
Derek Boothman
5 Historico-political dynamics in the Prison Notebooks:
passive revolution, relations of force, organic crisis 83
Francesca Antonini
6 Hegemony as a protean concept 99
Elizabeth Humphrys
PART II THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS: A NEW
POLITICAL VOCABULARY
7 The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramsci’s Prison
Notebooks 118
Panagiotis Sotiris
8 State, capital and civil society 136
Marco Fonseca
9 Intellectuals, ideology, and the ethico-political 152
Jean-Pierre Reed and Carlos L. Garrido
10 Where Trotsky’s horizons stop, Gramsci’s begin: the
passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity 171
Adam David Morton
11 War of maneuver and war of position: Gramsci and the
dialectic of revolution 189
Daniel Egan
12 Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsci
about prefiguration 204
Dorothea Elena Schoppek
13 The Modern Prince and revolutionary strategy 219
Alexandros Chrysis
PART III GRAMSCI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
SECTION A: PHILOSOPHICAL AND
POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ISSUES
14 Gramsci, post-Marxism and critical realism 240
Jonathan Joseph
15 Hegemonic projects and cultural political economy 261
Bob Jessop
16 Fordism, post-Fordism and the imperial mode of living 279
Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen
SECTION B: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION
17 Hegemony, gender and social reproduction 299
Anna Sturman
18 Cultural studies: the Gramscian current 315
Marco Briziarelli and Didarul Islam
19 Antonio Gramsci and education 334
Peter Mayo
20 Hegemony without hegemony: Gramsci, Guha and
post-Western Marxism 350
Sourayan Mookerjea
SECTION C: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLE
21 Social movements and hegemonic struggle 370
Laurence Cox
22 Hegemonic struggle and right-wing populism 388
Owen Worth
23 Gramsci and hegemonic struggle in a globalized world 406
Thomas Muhr
SECTION D: GLOBAL ORGANIC CRISIS
24 Transnational neoliberalism in organic crisis 428
Henk Overbeek
25 Beyond ecocidal capitalism: climate crisis and climate justice 448
Kevin Surprise
Index
1 Introduction: recovering a Gramsci for our times 1
William K. Carroll
PART I GRAMSCI IN CONTEXT
2 Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary 31
Nathan Sperber and George Hoare
3 Gramsci, Marx, Hegel 48
Robert P. Jackson
4 ‘The Revolution against “Capital”’: Constancy, change
and collective will in Gramsci’s concepts 66
Derek Boothman
5 Historico-political dynamics in the Prison Notebooks:
passive revolution, relations of force, organic crisis 83
Francesca Antonini
6 Hegemony as a protean concept 99
Elizabeth Humphrys
PART II THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS: A NEW
POLITICAL VOCABULARY
7 The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramsci’s Prison
Notebooks 118
Panagiotis Sotiris
8 State, capital and civil society 136
Marco Fonseca
9 Intellectuals, ideology, and the ethico-political 152
Jean-Pierre Reed and Carlos L. Garrido
10 Where Trotsky’s horizons stop, Gramsci’s begin: the
passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity 171
Adam David Morton
11 War of maneuver and war of position: Gramsci and the
dialectic of revolution 189
Daniel Egan
12 Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsci
about prefiguration 204
Dorothea Elena Schoppek
13 The Modern Prince and revolutionary strategy 219
Alexandros Chrysis
PART III GRAMSCI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
SECTION A: PHILOSOPHICAL AND
POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ISSUES
14 Gramsci, post-Marxism and critical realism 240
Jonathan Joseph
15 Hegemonic projects and cultural political economy 261
Bob Jessop
16 Fordism, post-Fordism and the imperial mode of living 279
Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen
SECTION B: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION
17 Hegemony, gender and social reproduction 299
Anna Sturman
18 Cultural studies: the Gramscian current 315
Marco Briziarelli and Didarul Islam
19 Antonio Gramsci and education 334
Peter Mayo
20 Hegemony without hegemony: Gramsci, Guha and
post-Western Marxism 350
Sourayan Mookerjea
SECTION C: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLE
21 Social movements and hegemonic struggle 370
Laurence Cox
22 Hegemonic struggle and right-wing populism 388
Owen Worth
23 Gramsci and hegemonic struggle in a globalized world 406
Thomas Muhr
SECTION D: GLOBAL ORGANIC CRISIS
24 Transnational neoliberalism in organic crisis 428
Henk Overbeek
25 Beyond ecocidal capitalism: climate crisis and climate justice 448
Kevin Surprise
Index
