Alternative Modernities

Antonio Gramsci's Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-47673-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

Antonio Gramsci lived the Great War as a “historic break,” a profound experience that left an indelible mark on the development of his political thought. Translated into English for the first time, Alternative Modernities reconstructs and analyses this critical period of Gramsci’s intellectual formation through a systematic analysis of his writings from 1915 to 1935. For Gramsci, Soviet Communism, “Americanism,” and the “new” Fascist State were the principle responses to the crisis of the old world order. He portrayed them as the three protagonists of twentieth-century modernity, alternatives destined to tragically clash in the worldwide struggle for hegemony. Among the arguments in his Prison Notebooks, Gramsci casts doubt on the political strategy of Soviet Communism and the theoretical underpinnings of “official Marxism.” Instead, he suggests a radical revision of Marxism by breathing life into a new interpretation whose fundamental concepts are: politics as the struggle for hegemony, the “passive revolution” as a historical paradigm of modernity, and the philosophy of praxis as the welding between visions of the worlds, historical analyses, and political strategies. Gramsci’s intuitions culminate in a new theory of the political subject, supported by a reflection upon the 20th century that still speaks to us today, pointing the way toward a new narrative of world history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vacca, Giuseppe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dennis, Chris

Boothman, Derek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The concept of hegemony.- 2. The nature of passive revolution.- 3. From Historical Materialismù to the Philosophy of Praxis: Foundations for a Processual Theory of the Subject.- 4. Hegemony and Democracy.- 5. Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Vacca is a Professor and the former President of Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Italy.