Antonio Gramsci: an intellectual biography / Giovanni Fresu.
Fresu, Giovanni.
2023
HX289.7.G73
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Title Antonio Gramsci: an intellectual biography / Giovanni Fresu.
Author Fresu, Giovanni.
ISBN 9783031156106 (electronic bk.)
3031156102 (electronic bk.)
3031156099
9783031156090
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15610-6
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-15610-6 doi
Call Number HX289.7.G73
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.532092
Summary This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramscis process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged. The Gramsci in Notebooks cannot fully account for the young director of LOrdine Nuovo, or for the communist leader. Gramscis development did not occur under conditions of intellectual inflexibility, of absence of evolution. However, there is a strong thread connecting the "political Gramsci" with Gramsci as a "cultivated man." The Sardinian intellectual's life is marked by the drama of World War I, the first mass conflict in which the great scientific discoveries of the previous decades were applied on a large scale and in which millions of peasants and workers were slaughtered. In all of his theoretical formulations, this dual relation, which epitomizes the instrumental use of "simpletons" by ruling classes, goes beyond the military context of the trenches and becomes full-fledged in the fundamental relations of modern capitalist society. In contrast with this notion of social hierarchy, which is deemed natural and unchangeable, Gramsci constantly affirmed the need to overcome the historically determined rupture between intellectual and manual functions, due to which the existence of a priesthood or of a separate caste of specialists in politics and in knowledge is made necessary.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
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ANTONIO GRAMSCI.
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PART ONE THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY
1. The premises of an uninterrupted discourse
2. Dialectics versus positivism: the young Gramscis philosophical background
3. Self-education and autonomy of producers
4. Lenin and the topicality of revolution
5. LOrdine Nuovo
6. The origin and defeat of the Italian revolution
7. The party problem
8. Revolutionary reflux and reactionary offensive
PART TWO THE POLITICAL LEADER
9. The new Party
10. The Comintern and the "Italian case"
11. Toward a new majority
12. Gramsci leading the Party
13. Theoretical maturity between 1925 and 1926
14. The Congress of Lyon
PART THREE THE THEORETICIAN
15. From Sardinias contradictions to the sourther question
16. The Notebooks: the difficult beginnings of a "disinterested" work
17. Hegemonic relations, productive relations and the subaltern
18. Permanent transformism
19. Historical premises and congenital contradictions in Italian biography
20. "The old dies and the new cannot be born"
21. The double revision of Marxism and similarity with Lukacs
22. Translatability and hegemony
23. The philosopher man and the tamed gorilla
24. Michels, the intellectuals and the issue of organization
25. The dismantling of the old schemes of political art.

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