A companion to Antonio Gramsci : : essays on history and theories of history, politics and historiography / / edited by Davide Cadeddu.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 164
• TeilnehmendeR: Cadeddu, Davide,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 164.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Gramsci’s thought realize an intellectual account of the Gramscian historiography. The volume is organized into five parts. In the first, an updated reconstruction of his biographical events is offered. The second part provides three different perspectives permitting an analysis of the ideas and theories of history which emerge from Gramsci’s writings. In the third section as well as the fourth section, the most explicitly political themes are considered. Finally, in the last part the timelines of twentieth century historiography in Italy are traced and a picture is painted of the reasons for the development of the principal problems surrounding the international literary output on Gramsci. Contributors include: Alberto Burgio, Davide Cadeddu, Giuseppe Cospito, Angelo d’Orsi, Michele Filippini, Guido Liguori, Marcello Montanari, Vittorio Morfino, Stefano Petrucciani, Michele Prospero, Leonardo Rapone, Giuseppe Vacca, and Marzio Zanantoni.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- History -- Gramsci: From Socialism to Communism / Leonardo Rapone -- Antonio Gramsci: the Prison Years / Angelo d’Orsi -- Theories of History -- The Crisis of European Civilization in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci / Giuseppe Vacca -- Notes on Gramsci’s Theory of History / Marcello Montanari -- The Layers of History and the Politics in Gramsci / Vittorio Morfino -- Communism -- Gramsci’s Antidogmatic Reading of Marx / Stefano Petrucciani -- Gramsci, the October Revolution and its “Translation” in the West / Guido Liguori -- On the Transition to Communism / Alberto Burgio -- Hegemony -- Gramsci: Political Scientist / Michele Prospero -- The “Prison Notebooks”: Hegemony and Civil Society / Giuseppe Cospito -- On the Productive Use of Hegemony (Laclau, Hall, Chatterjee) / Michele Filippini -- Historiography -- The Influence and Legacy of Antonio Gramsci in Twentieth-Century Italy / Marzio Zanantoni -- The International Historiography on Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century / Davide Cadeddu -- Back Matter -- Bibliographic Abbreviations -- Index.