Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks: (205 Historical Materialism Book Series)

Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsci’s texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsci’s thought to generate and nurture innovative inquiries across diverse themes. Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world. Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgements Note on the Text Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gramsci Past and Present  Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro and Robert Jackson Part 1 Global Gramsci: Gramscian Geographies 1 Gramsci as a Historical Geographical Materialist  Alex Loftus 2 Neoliberalism as Passive Revolution? Insights from the Egyptian Experience  Roberto Roccu 3 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: ‘Past and Present’ of Thailand’s Organic Crisis  Watcharabon Buddharaksa Part 2 Language and Translation 4 Gramsci: Structure of Language, Structure of Ideology  Derek Boothman 5 Hegemonic Language: The Politics of Linguistic Phenomena  Alen Sućeska 6 Translations of Gramsci’s Texts into Polish: A Gramscian Analysis  Marta Natalia Wróblewska Part 3 Gramsci and the Marxian Legacy 7 Time and Revolution in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks  Fabio Frosini 8 From Marx’s Diesseitigkeit to Gramsci’s terrestrità assoluta  Aaron Bernstein 9 Interpreting the Present from the Past: Gramsci, Marx and the Historical Analogy  Francesca Antonini Part 4 Subalternity between Pre-modernity and Modernity 10 We Good Subalterns  Peter D. Thomas 11 Subalternity and the National-Popular: A Brief Genealogy of the Concepts  Anne Freeland 12 What Can We Learn from Gramsci Today? Migrant Subalternity and the Refugee Movements: Perspectives from the Lampedusa in Hamburg  Susi Meret Part 5 Postcolonial and Anthropological Approaches 13 Back to the South: Revisiting Gramsci’s Southern Question in the Light of Subaltern Studies  Carmine Conelli 14 Gramsci and Foucault in Counterpoint  Nicolas Vandeviver 15 The Changing Meanings of People’s Politics: Gramsci and Anthropology from the History of Subaltern Classes to Contemporary Political Subjects  Riccardo Ciavolella Part 6 Culture, Ideology, Religion 16 Religion, Common Sense, and Good Sense in Gramsci  Takahiro Chino 17 Past and Present: Popular Literature  Ingo Pohn-Lauggas 18 The Mummification of Culture in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks  Robert Jackson Part 7 Historical Capitalism and World History 19 Gramsci and the Rise of Capitalism  Yohann Douet 20 The Gramscian Moment in International Political Economy  Lorenzo Fusaro 21 Rethinking Fordism  Bruno Settis Part 8 Readings of Gramsci 22 Between Belonging and Originality: Norberto Bobbio’s Interpretation of Gramsci  Alessio Panichi 23 The Diffusion of Gramsci’s Thought in the ‘Peripheral West’ of Latin America  Valentina Cuppi 24 An Imaginary Gramscianism? Early French Gramscianism and the Quest for ‘Marxist Humanism’ (1947–65)  Anthony Crézégut 25 Althusser, Gramsci and Machiavelli: Encounters and Mis-encounters  Sebastian Neubauer References Index

About the Author :
Francesca Antonini, Ph.D. (2015) is Early Career Fellow in Intellectual History at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany). Her first monograph (Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity) is forthcoming with Brill. Aaron Bernstein received his Ph.D in European Studies at King's College London (2016). He is the editor of Gramsci and the German Crisis 1929-34, forthcoming with Brill, and is currently writing a monograph provisionally entitled, From the Theses on Feuerbach to the Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Gramsci, Philosophy and Politics, also forthcoming with Brill. Lorenzo Fusaro, Ph.D. in IPE (King’s College London, 2013), is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He is the author of diverse works, including Crises and Hegemonic Transitions. From Gramsci’s Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy (Brill, 2019). Robert Jackson, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published in Science & Society, the International Gramsci Journal, and Gramsciana, and in the edited volumes Subjectivity and the Political (Routledge, 2017) The Meanings of Violence (Routledge, 2018).

Review :
Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks: Book Launch with Robert Jackson, Peter D. Thomas, Anne Showstack Sassoon, Francesca Antonini & Lorenzo Fusaro [Click here for the recording of the session]