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Security Intelligence and Left Intellectuals: Australia, 1970
Cahill, Rowan
In 1970 the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) identified the ideas of Antonio Gramsci as one of the root causes of dissent, opposition and cultural ferment. This document is an example of ASIO’s concern about Marxist intellectuals and their Gramscian links.
2008-01-01T08:00:00Z
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2009-02-12T04:38:03Z
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Contribuciones De Gramsci Al Cambio Social En Chile: De La Declinación De La Ideología Pos Moderna A La Re-Emergencia De La Izquierda
Hurtado, Rene Leal
Este trabajo argumenta que las teorías social demócratas y pos modernas han retardado las posibilidades de cambio social y han sido sustento ideológico del neo liberalismo en Chile. Sin embargo, el aumento de la lucha social muestra una creciente declinación de su influencia social y de su legitimidad política. Constatada esta declinación, el análisis de clases y el concepto de hegemonía de Gramsci que debatieron con el socialismo pos moderno, re-orienta el debate de la izquierda en torno a la lucha social y la construcción de un proyecto de superación del neo liberalismo.
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2009-02-11T21:42:10Z
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Antonio Gramsci and Fund of Knowledge: Organic Ethnographers of Knowledge in Workers' Centres
Zanoni, Joseph P.
Participants of workers’ centres, led by organic ethnographers of knowledge, will be engaged in a critique of spontaneous funds of knowledge and the development of judgment criteria to guide workers from Gramsci’s conception of common sense to good sense in the discovery of knowledge through praxis.
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2009-02-11T20:55:05Z
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Obituary for John Cammett: Organic Intellectual
Davidson, Alastair
John Cammett, died on July 30, 2008. Internationally known as a pioneering scholar of Antonio Gramsci, he studied the impact of Gramsci on the Italian communist movement, which became the most significant aspect of his life’s work.
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2009-02-11T21:40:36Z
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Gramsci, Class and Post-Marxism
Donaldson, Mike
Often Gramsci is presented in the social sciences, particularly by post-Marxists, as a precursor of and justification for abandoning the concept of class. This is incorrect. This article outlines Gramsci’s ideas of class, class composition, formation and alliance which Gramsci based on a detailed, accurate reconnaissance of the Italy of his time.
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2009-02-11T21:43:55Z
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Del Gobierno del Pueblo a la Rebelión Popular: Historia del Partido Comunista 1970–1990 (Review)
Hurtado, Rene Leal
Review of Del Gobierno del Pueblo a la Rebelión Popular: Historia del Partido Comunista 1970–1990. Francisco Herreros, Editorial Siglo xxi, Santiago, Chile, 2005.
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2009-02-11T21:43:21Z
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Hegemony and Education. Gramsci, Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy Revisited (Review)
Donaldson, Mike
Review of Hegemony and Education. Gramsci, Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy Revisited Deb J. Hill, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, 2007.
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2012-10-29T04:44:30Z
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New phase of development and knowledge capitalism: Gramsci's historical revenge
Ordonez, Sergio
This article argues that the tremendous timeliness of Gramscian thought resides in the appreciation that, at the current time, just as in the 1930s, the transition to a new phase of the development of capitalism, for which the term knowledge capitalism is proposed, is verifiable, for which the technological-productive fundamentals have thus far been developed without its projection having yet taken place in the superstructure. From this flows a double historical revenge of Gramscian thought, since, on the one hand, it provides a valuable theoretical instrument for understanding and taking advantage of historical change, and, on the other, it offers major political strategic principles that at the current time, based on forms of production and autonomous social organization of the subaltern groups and classes within knowledge capitalism, have the historical-social space to contribute to the construction of an alternative hegemony characteristic of these classes and groups. To delve into this question, the article has been divided in three sections. The first section presents Gramscian theoretical tools for understanding historical change; the second synthetically explains the distinctive features of the new phase of development and characterizes the moment of its current unfolding in light of the previously mentioned theoretical instruments, and the third section discusses postcapitalist forms of production and social organization that could lead to the formation of alternative hegemonic social blocs in the framework of the emergence of the new phase of development that is becoming a historical epoch.
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2012-10-29T04:37:52Z
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Croce, Gentile and Gramsci on Translation [English]
Jervolino, Domenico
The activity of translating is as old as the entire history of human civilization. Yet, according to some, it is only in the second half of the twentieth century that translation became the subject of a specific discipline, or, more correctly, that it became the subject of a broad field of interdisciplinary studies, from linguistics to semantics, from literary criticism to comparative literature, and, more recently, even philosophy itself. This is so to the extent that the first scholars of translation in France have even spoken of a tournant philosophique de la traduction [philosophical turn of translation].1 It is natural to look back and attempt to delineate a history of the ideas about translation elaborated in the remote and in the near past once the theme of translation has imposed itself in various ways in the arena of contemporary culture, and therefore to find important precursors and ancestors, even though their contribution was limited often either to fragments or to opinions expressed in the margins of works devoted to other subjects or to comments about their translations.
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2012-10-29T04:39:43Z
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Croce, Gentile e Gramsci sulla traduzione [Italian]
Jervolino, Domenico
L’attività del tradurre è tanto antica quanto la storia della civiltà umana nel suo complesso, ma il tema della traduzione solo nella seconda metà del secolo ventesimo è diventato oggetto di una disciplina specifica, secondo alcuni, o meglio di un ampio campo di studi interdisciplinari, dalla linguistica alla semiotica, dalla critica letteraria alla letteratura comparata, alla stessa filosofia in anni più recenti, sino al punto che si è potuto parlare di un tournant philosophique de la traduction da parte di uno dei primi studiosi di traduzione in Francia1. Comunque, una volta impostosi a vario titolo il tema della traduzione nella cultura contemporanea, è stato naturale guardarsi indietro e cercare di delineare una storia delle idee sulla traduzione nel passato remoto e prossimo, trovando in questo modo precursori o antenati illustri, anche se spesso il loro contributo si è limitato a frammenti o ad opinioni espresse in margine ad opere dedicate ad altri argomenti, oppure come chiose dei propri lavori di traduzione.
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2012-10-29T04:14:57Z
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Escritura trágica bajo el fascismo: Gramsci a los 70 años de su muerte [Spanish]
Almeida Rodriguez, Manuel S.
Debemos ser cuidadosos al interpretar las palabras de Romain Rolland que Gramsci repite numerosas veces en sus cuadernos carcelarios y que hace suyas como lema personal, ‘pesimismo de la inteligencia, optimismo de la voluntad’. Hay que evitar caer en la entendible tentación de enfatizar la segunda parte (optimismo de la voluntad), como si hiciese todo el sentido del mundo darle mayor importancia al elemento de la voluntad porque Gramsci dió importancia al marxismo como una filosofía de la praxis. Aclarando de entrada, la interpretación del marxismo propuesta por Gramsci (1975: 435, 1434, entre otros ejemplos) es que éste es una concepción de mundo autónoma, comprensiva, totalizadora, capaz de interpretar el mundo con miras a una progresiva transformación de éste. En su interpretación del marxismo como una filosofía de la praxis el componente teórico no es por un lado reducido ni a un elemento instrumental y justificador de cualquier práctica (Gramsci 1975: 1386), ni por otro lado se reduce a especulación suprahistórica. Es por eso que la concepción de Gramsci del marxismo como una filosofía de la praxis se va hilvanando a través de una crítica paralela tanto al historicismo de Croce como al materialismo vulgar de Bujarín, presentes de forma más sostenida en los cuadernos 10 y 11. Crítica a Croce que se debe tomar muy en cuenta porque si bien Gramsci rechaza un marxismo determinista, no debe mover automáticamente al intérprete a ver en la posición gramsciana una postura voluntarista o subjetivista. Por eso Gramsci (por ej., 1975: 1579) repetidas veces en los Cuadernos, menciona el planteamiento de Marx a los efectos de que una sociedad no se plantea las tareas para las cuales no existen la condiciones objetivas para su solución, condiciones que a su vez deben ser ‘educadas’. En última instancia, el pensamiento de Gramsci es abiertamente, históricamente, dialéctico. Su mayor énfasis a través de la totalidad de los Cuadernos es alrededor de una de las preocupaciones más centrales y más antiguas en el pensamiento político, las relaciones entre dirigentes y dirigidos o gobernantes y gobernados, y cómo éstas se expresan a través de todo el tejido social, inclusive en esas esferas sociales menos sospechadas
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2012-10-29T04:12:54Z
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Some Notes on the Tragic Writing of Antonio Gramsci [English]
Almeida Rodriguez, Manuel S.
Abstract This essay considers the tragic elements present in Gramsci’s prison writings, including both the Prison Notebooks and the Prison Letters. It highlights specific moments in both the notebooks and the letters in which this tragic element presents itself. These include the interpretation of the often cited motto of ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’ present in the notebooks, of the für ewig character of the notebooks as expressed in an important prison letter, and of other important passages. Also, it shows how the tragic element expresses at the same time the fusion of Gramsci’s personal tragedy with the political tragedy of the Left in general. Finally, the essay treats on how this tragic element transcends itself in the claim for the fertilizing of the social terrain for a better future.
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2012-10-29T04:42:08Z
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Gramsci at the margins: subjectivity and subalternity in a theory of hegemony
Smith, Kylie
In strictly political terms, the Gramscian concept of subalternity applies to those groups in society who are lacking autonomous political power. In Gramsci’s time these groups were easily identified, and much of the work around the concept of subalternity has centred on groups like peasants and the proletariat. But Gramsci also argued that subalternity existed on a broader scale than this, including people from different religions or cultures, or those existing at the margins of society. This aspect of Gramsci’s work is often overlooked, because many writers are interested in Gramsci’s political theory, which they use to analyse the way in which capitalism, as a structural system, has become hegemonic over time. The focus here is on the history of organised groups and their organised struggle. Hence, the emphasis is largely on white, male-oriented institutions of power. But Gramsci argued that hegemony did not exist merely at this level. Rather, he argued that hegemony comes from below, originating in the thoughts, beliefs and actions of everyday people who may or may not see themselves as part of organised groups. Hence, Gramsci was intensely aware of the way hegemony operated at a personal level. Capitalist hegemony was not, is not, possible, without a complete identification at the level of the self. This paper seeks to expand on some of Gramsci’s thinking in this area, in an attempt to understand the connections between the self and society in a theory of hegemony, where hegemony is considered a process based on leadership, rather than a state built on domination. It is through an analysis of what hegemonic processes exclude (or make subaltern), that we can expand our understanding of how hegemony works, and of how it may be resisted.
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2012-10-29T04:49:37Z
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Cover page and contents, International Gramsci Journal No.2 2010
Hawksley, Charles M
The International Gramsci Journal (IGJ) is produced in electronic format. It aims to publish scholarship on aspects of Antonio Gramsci’s life and writings, and on contemporary applications of his theories to the modern world. IGJ aims to publish in Italian, Spanish and English. We publish both peer-reviewed articles and shorter “Gramsci notes”. In the future we aim to publish book reviews of works that employ Gramscian concepts and theories. As a new journal IGJ relies on the efforts of a small group of colleagues in Australia, but we aim to be a global journal. To make IGJ work we need your help. If you have a piece of writing that you think would be suitable for IGJ, or have students who you could encourage to submit to IGJ, we would welcome the opportunity to review and publish new scholarship or shorter pieces in translation. IGJ No. 2 for the first time has original research in Italian, Spanish and English. On behalf of the editorial team I hope that you find something of interest to you in IGJ No. 2.
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2012-10-29T04:25:46Z
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The history of the subaltern groups: Rome and the Middle Ages in Italy
Bellina, Camilla
Bianchi, Erica
Boothman, Derek
D'Alessandro, Monica
Ferraresi, Adriano
Foschi, Maria Lucia
Guerrieri, Manuel
Locatelli, Marco
Malaguti, Luna
Palmeri, Frederica
Romolo, Angela
Tassinari, Caterina
Given the international interest, debate and controversy on questions of the subaltern classes and of relationships of hegemony, it has been thought useful to present here a number of sections (conventionally called paragraphs) from the Prison Notebooks that are as yet awaiting publication in an English translation. They will of course come out in Joseph Buttigieg’s ongoing project of the translation in their entirety of the Gerratana edition of the Notebooks, and publication of some of Gramsci’s first drafts of the pieces here included are imminent. In other cases, however, the first drafts by Gramsci, especially the paragraphs discussing Ettore Ciccotti’s articles, have actually been published in the second volume of the Buttigieg edition,1 not to mention of course editions in languages other than English. Apart from Gramsci’s general discussion of the emergence of the subaltern classes and their struggle for recognition and even some sort of hegemony, what readers may find of further interest is the way in which he reworks and elaborates his arguments either in detail or at the level of what often appear relatively minor specifications.
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2012-10-29T21:54:08Z
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Recent publicaitons in English on Gramsci
Hawksley, Charles M
Recent publications in English on Gramsci (reproduced with permission of the International Gramsci Society) http://internationalgramscisociety.org/resources/recent_publications/index.html
2011-01-01T08:00:00Z
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2012-10-29T21:51:37Z
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Cover page and contents, International Gramsci Journal No.3 2011
Hawksley, Charles M
Welcome to the International Gramsci Journal (IGJ) No. 3 of March 2011. IGJ is a new journal that only publishes online. The journal, or individual sections or papers, may be downloaded from our website: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/research/gramsci-journal/ Each edition of IGJ has two parts. The Gramsci Notes section publishes short pieces of general interest about Gramscian thought, reproduced with permission from other sources. These are selected by the IGJ editor.
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2012-10-30T01:56:08Z
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Aggiornamento Bibliografia gramsciana Italia (primo semestre 2010)
Errico, Alessandro
Filippini, Michele
Aggiornamento Bibliografia gramsciana Italia (primo semestre 2010) (reproduced with permission of the International Gramsci Society) http://internationalgramscisociety.org/resources/recent_publications/index.html
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2012-10-30T01:54:05Z
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The articles by Gramsci published in English in International Press Correspondence
Boothman, Derek
Gramsci, Antonio
The articles included here represent most of what Gramsci published in the Comintern journal International Press Correspondence, under his own name or one of his pseudonyms of the period, G. (sometimes Giovanni) Masci. 1 In much of this period Inprecorr was coming out more or less twice a week, with articles from all parts of the world, including from Russia, with articles written by the various Party and Union leaders. Even during the period of great polemics which basically started just before Lenin’s death and carried on over the whole of this period, the Inprecorr in its various languages of publication, carried articles giving all points of view written by all the participants in the controversies. This was true both of the Russian communists, so the Trotsky controversy was given full airing from both sides, and of those involved in other debates outside Russia. In Italy, for example, it was not only the extreme left of Amadeo Bordiga that was present in the Party, and that found space in the pages of Inprecorr, but also the right of Angelo Tasca – one of the Turin Ordine Nuovo group and, up to near the end of Gramsci’s stay in Moscow, one who had the ear of the Comintern leadership. And another on the right was Antonio Graziadei, an economist judged to hold a “revisionist” stance, whose views were expressed fully both in Inprecorr and in book International Press Correspondence came out regularly in Russian, French, German and English (with the abbreviation Inprecorr), and sometimes, it seems, also in a Spanish edition. The period of the articles published here ranges from 1922, up through Gramsci’s half-year stay in Vienna (December 1923 to May 1924), and on to the last period when, after his election as a parliamentary deputy, he was able to return to Italy on the basis of parliamentary immunity. With his new status as a deputy he could in theory evade the warrant that had been put out for his arrest in February 1923.
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2012-10-30T01:38:27Z
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O Estado Novo do PT [Spanish]
Vianna, Luiz Werneck
A crer nos indicadores dos dois períodos presidenciais de Fernando Henrique, mas, sobretudo, a partir do mandato de Lula, o capitalismo brasileiro encontrou um caminho de expansão e de intensificação da sua experiência. Contudo, tem sido agora que se vê conduzido por um projeto pluriclassista e com a definida intenção de favorecer uma reconciliação política com a história do país, contrariamente à administração anterior, mais homogênea em sua composição de interesses e decididamente refratária ao que entendia ser o legado patrimonial da nossa herança republicana.
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2012-10-30T03:03:47Z
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The Centrality of the State in Neoliberal Times
Mayo, Peter
One of the greatest myths being propagated in this contemporary neoliberal scenario is that the nation state is no longer the main force in this period characterized by the intensification of globalization. Deregulation was brought in by governments to expedite the process where various forms of provision, private and formerly public, were left to the market. And yet the credit crunch starkly laid bare the folly of this conviction as new forms of regulation are being put in place with the state, the national state, intervening to bail out banks and other institutions in this situation. I consider this an opportune moment to look at the function of the state and assess its role within the contemporary scenario of ‘hegemonic globalization’, to adopt the term used by the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos (de Sousa Santos in Dale and Robertson, 2004: 151), and its underlying ideology, neoliberalism. I will look at different theoretical insights and then end this excursus with a discussion of Gramsci’s conceptualization of the state and its implications for present day politics.
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Resisting Abstraction: Gramsci’s Historiological Method
Greaves, Nigel
This article argues that the writings of Antonio Gramsci should be situated in their rightful social, philosophical, political, in short, 'historical' context. This is particularly true of his prison writing which is a rich resource but one which calls for delicate archaeological handling. It appears that Gramsci’s Marxism is unapologetically eclectic but this results in an integrated and surprisingly harmonious theoretical and practical approach to history and society. This can be brought to sharp focus only by close examination of the educational properties of Gramsci’s historical environment, the suggestions it makes, the perceptible possibilities it entails, that which blocks or impedes movement and progress, and so on. That is to say, Gramsci was not an abstract thinker. His thinking is grounded in the class war of the Italy of his time and, in turn, this was attuned to the broader struggle against capitalism in and beyond Italy's borders. This is arguably the way Gramsci would prefer to be remembered and indeed the context in which he would perhaps prefer to be utilised today. Reading Gramsci, therefore, requires knowing Gramsci. The problems encountered are an unfortunate consequence of the conditions in which he wrote but they can be overcome if we apply ‘Gramsci to Gramsci’.
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International Gramsci Journal No.4 2015 Full version
Boothman, Derek
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International Gramsci Journal No.4 - Editorial / Editoriale
Boothman, Derek
International Gramsci Journal No.4 - Editorial / Editoriale.
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Introduction to the 2013 Gramsci Summer School / Introduzione alla Gramsci Summer School (2013)
Pala, Mauro
In the spirit of the “Gramsci Workshop” - Introducing the workshop entitled For Gramsci means in the first place to put it in the context of the International Summer School beginning in 2014: as had emerged from the preliminary discussions, the Summer School at Ghilarza (the Gramsci Summer School – hereafter the GSS) is a point of contact, an interface, but above all a field of interaction and reciprocal enrichment between the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci (Rome) and the International Gramsci Society, thanks to the collaboration of the Antonio Gramsci House Museum in Ghilarza and of the other Gramsci associations, not forgetting the essential contribution of the Fondazione Banca di Sardegna.
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Traducibilità e modernità del nesso concettuale egemonico/subalterno nelle relazioni di Peter Thomas e Cosimo Zene
Fresu, Gianni
La sessione dei lavori di oggi ci fornisce uno spaccato sulle possibili traduzioni del patrimonio teorico gramsciano, in concrete formazioni economico-sociali profondamente diverse da quelle indagate dall’intellettuale sardo, e sui suoi elementi di attualità effettuale. L’esigenza di dare carne e ossa alle categorie concettuali, contestualizzarle alle realtà storicamente determinate, è del tutto coerente con lo spirito dell’opera di Gramsci e con la sua aspirazione a evitare l’astrattezza e la genericità delle affermazioni ideologiche. Valga un esempio tra tanti: quando, nel Quaderno 7, Gramsci delinea la questione dei rapporti di dominio ed egemonia in un paese a capitalismo avanzato, la ricollega alle riflessioni di Lenin successive al fallimento delle rivoluzioni in Occidente e dunque alla politica del “Fronte unico”. Tuttavia, per Gramsci, Lenin era stato capace dell’intuizione ma non ebbe il tempo di svilupparla, anche perché avrebbe potuto farlo solo sul piano teorico, mentre “il compito era essenzialmente nazionale”, vale a dire, serviva una “profonda ricognizione del terreno e una fissazione degli elementi di trincea e di fortezza”
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Sulle “spie” dei “Quaderni del carcere”
Frosini, Fabio
La parola “spia”, oltre a ricorrere in modo massiccio nei romanzi di un preciso genere letterario, che oggi sembra essere diventato una fonte di ispirazione metodologica presso alcuni interpreti di Gramsci, ha anche un significato ben diverso, che lo assimila ai termini indice, indizio o segnale. In questa seconda accezione esso può a sua volta avere due sensi, potendo designare o un artefatto che segnala il verificarsi di un evento o stato, come nella “spia dell’acqua”, oppure il verificarsi di un evento che rinvia a un altro evento, come nella frase “il fumo è spia della presenza di fuoco”. In questa accezione la parola “spie” verrà qui utilizzata. Si parlerà pertanto di “spie dei Quaderni del carcere”, intendendo dei segnali, degli indizi, degli indici che, considerati nel loro insieme, rinviano a qualcosa.
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2015-08-23T23:28:09Z
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I subalterni nel mondo: tipologie e nesso con le differenti forme dell’esperienza religiosa
Zene, Cosimo
L’esperienza religiosa dei gruppi subalterni occupa un posto di rilievo nel pensiero di Gramsci. È soprattutto nei Quaderni 3 e 25 che si trovano i riferimenti teorici e metodologici – offerti in reciproca osmosi – per individuare il nesso tra gruppi subalterni e religione. È qui che si avverte l’importanza delle “tracce di iniziativa autonoma” che forniscono allo “storico integrale” l’elemento base per poter compilare storie monografiche di questi gruppi. Pur nella comunanza di situazioni ed esperienze, ogni gruppo ha la sua storia, spesso composta da molteplici storie parallele, che danno quindi origine a monografie diverse. Queste monografie costituiscono, dal punto di vista dei gruppi subalterni, lo sforzo maggiore – coadiuvato dallo storico integrale – per affermare una storia alternativa che vuole raccontare il cammino di “ritorno” dei subalterni dai “margini della storia” verso il nucleo centrale della vita politica. Tenendo presente le avvertenze metodologiche suggeriteci nella prima parte del nostro incontro che ci propongono un’attenzione a “spie e cautele” gramsciane1, penso sia necessario correre un rischio calcolato, e quindi applicare la linea indicata da Gramsci, sia per stabilire il nesso gruppi subalterni-religione, sia per indicare alcuni esempi di possibili “monografie” che servirebbe ad evidenziare la grande varietà di tipologie presenti tra i diversi gruppi subalterni nel mondo. Mentre la lista di queste tipologie sarebbe in sé alquanto estesa, in questo scritto desidero offrire due esempi di tipologie che andrebbero poi ulteriormente sviluppate in vere e proprie monografie: il blues afro-americano e il concetto di “lavoro” in un’area della Sardegna.
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Le “cautele” nella scrittura carceraria di Gramsci
Cospito, Guiseppe
In questo mio intervento intendo proporre, quale chiave interpretativa dell’intera opera carceraria di Gramsci, il tema della “cautela”, o meglio delle “cautele”, attribuendo a questo termine una gamma di accezioni in parte differenti e in parte sovrapponibili tra loro, e comunque riconducibili al dato di fatto, evidente agli occhi di tutti ma forse proprio per questo non sempre tenuto nella dovuta considerazione, che tali scritti sono stati composti nel corso di poco più di dieci anni trascorsi dal loro autore in condizioni di restrizione più o meno totale della libertà: dall’arresto (8 novembre 1926) al confino di Ustica (7 dicembre), dalla detenzione in attesa di processo (7 febbraio 1927) alla carcerazione vera e propria nel penitenziario di Turi (19 luglio 1928), dal ricovero in clinica dapprima in stato di detenzione (7 dicembre 1933) e poi di libertà condizionale (25 ottobre 1934), fino alla morte, sopraggiunta poco dopo avere riacquistato la piena libertà (27 aprile 1937). In particolare concentrerò la mia attenzione sui Quaderni del carcere, composti tra il febbraio 1929 e la metà del 1935, utilizzando l’epistolario e le altre testimonianze sull’esistenza carceraria di Gramsci come indispensabili fonti di informazione sull’entità, le forme e le ragioni di tali cautele. Lo scopo della mia ricognizione è mostrare come la prudenza adottata dal prigioniero sia nella stesura sia nella valutazione della propria opera, che per di più teme destinata a una fruizione prevalentemente postuma, richieda altrettanta prudenza da parte di chi la legge e la interpreta, allo scopo di evitare di “sollecitare i testi”, vale a dire, come scrive lo stesso Gramsci nei Quaderni, “far dire ai testi, per amor di tesi, più di quanto i testi realmente dicono”, compiendo così un “errore di metodo filologico [che] si verifica anche all’infuori della filologia, in tutte le analisi e gli esami delle manifestazioni di vita”.
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Cosa rimane dei subalterni alla luce dello “Stato integrale”?
Thomas, Peter D.
Nei Quaderni del carcere Antonio Gramsci sviluppa un nuovo concetto di classi o gruppi sociali subalterni, utilizzato per caratterizzare tutti quei gruppi sociali che sono soggetti a forme di comando e di direzione politica e sociale imposto da altre classi, dominanti o dirigenti. Convertito al singolare, il concetto di “subalterno” è una di quelle nozioni originariamente gramsciane, che ha goduto grande successo a livello internazionale, soprattutto negli ultimi anni. Esso ha dato origine a un intero campo di ricerca accademica – i Subaltern Studies – affermando Gramsci come uno dei suoi “padri-teorici” più significativi. Oggi questo concetto gode di una diffusione disciplinare e di un riconoscimento diffusi tra giovani studiosi e studiose, in maniera paragonabile al concetto di egemonia; addirittura, in alcuni casi, il concetto di “subalterno” è considerato ancora più significativo rispetto al concetto, ad esso integralmente connesso, di egemonia, dal quale è talvolta visto come distinto ed indipendente, se non addirittura con esso posto in antagonismo.
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Table of contents
Frosini, Fabio
Cospito, Giuseppe
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Editorial
Boothman, Derek
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Introduction
Cospito, Giuseppe
Frosini, Fabio
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Cover page
Frosini, Fabio
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Un labirinto di carta (Introduzione alla filologia gramsciana)
Francioni, Gianni
Dopo aver ripercorso le vicende editoriali dei “Quaderni” dalla loro prima pubblicazione in forma tematica alla nuova edizione critica in via di completamento, il saggio si sofferma sulle peculiarità della scrittura carceraria di Gramsci, la cui piena comprensione è condizione necessaria per cogliere “il ritmo del pensiero” dell’autore. Alcune di queste sono imposte dalla condizione carceraria, altre derivano da “regole” seguite più o meno consapevolmente dal prigioniero (alcune in modo continuativo, altre solo in certe fasi della scrittura) nella stesura delle proprie annotazioni. Lo studio di tali comportamenti, unito a un’analisi minuziosa dei manoscritti carcerari nella loro fisicità (copertine, interventi delle autorità carcerarie, grafia e così via), ha fornito una notevole quantità di elementi indiretti di datazione che, uniti alle (poche) indicazioni dirette di Gramsci, ha permesso di ricostruire con sempre maggiore precisione la cronologia dei singoli quaderni e dei blocchi di note che li compongono. È emersa inoltre con chiarezza la natura composita dei manoscritti gramsciani, che possono essere distinti (con qualche approssimazione, per via della presenza di quaderni “misti”) in quaderni di traduzioni, quaderni miscellanei e quaderni speciali; la nuova edizione critica, dedicando a ognuna di queste tre tipologie di quaderni un volume (a sua volta diviso in più tomi), si propone di restituire nel modo più fedele possibile tale caratteristica essenziale del lavoro del carcere.
After having outlined the editorial vicissitudes of the “Notebooks” in their first publication in thematic form to the new critical edition now being completed, the essay deals with the specific nature of Gramsci’s prison writing, whose full understanding is a necessary condition for capturing the author’s “rhythm of thought”. Some of these peculiarities were imposed by prison condition, while others stem from “rules” that were followed more or less consciously by the prisoner (some continuously, others only in certain phases of the writing) in writing down his annotations. The study of this behaviour, together with a minute analysis of the prison notebooks in their physical nature (covers, interventions by the prison authorities, handwriting and so on) has provided a notable quantity of indirect dating elements which, together with Gramsci’s (few) direct indications, has allowed an ever more precise reconstruction of the chronology of the individual notebooks and of the blocks of notes that comprise them. Furthermore, the composite nature of Gramsci’s manuscripts has clearly emerged: these may (with some approximation, because of the presence of some “mixed” notebooks) be divided into translation notebooks, miscellaneous notebooks and special notebooks. The new critical edition, by devoting one volume (divided in turn into more than one part) to each of these three typologies of notebooks, proposes to restore in the most faithful way possible this essential characteristic of the prison work.
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Egemonia/egemonico nei “Quaderni del carcere” (e prima)
Cospito, Giuseppe
Il saggio è diviso in due parti, dedicate rispettivamente all’uso del concetto di egemonia prima e negli scritti del carcere di Gramsci. Nella prima parte cerco di ricostruire una sorta di “preistoria” del termine, dall’origine greca alla lunga eclissi in età romana, nel Medioevo e nella prima modernità. Mi soffermo quindi sulla sua ripresa ottocentesca, prima nel lessico politico dei fautori dell’unità nazionale italiana e tedesca, e poi nel dibattito marxista della Seconda Internazionale. Ma è tra i bolscevichi che il concetto assume il significato pregnante sul quale Gramsci inizia a riflettere durante il soggiorno a Mosca (1922-23), nel periodo trascorso a Vienna (1923-24) e soprattutto dopo il ritorno in Italia (1924-26). La seconda parte del saggio tenta di ripercorrere in senso diacronico gli sviluppi della riflessione sull’egemonia nei Quaderni, nei quali emergono le accezioni peculiari di “egemonia politica” ed “egemonia civile”, non più riferite al solo proletariato ma a qualunque classe o gruppo sociale che lotti per conquistare e/o conservare il potere. Una lotta che si svolge prevalentemente sul terreno della società civile e che vede come protagonisti individui (gli intellettuali), istituzioni pubbliche e private, partiti (il moderno Principe), in un nesso inestricabile tra realtà nazionali e sovranazionali. L’esito della riflessione di Gramsci costituisce una traduzione libera e audace dell’originario concetto leniniano di egemonia, che peraltro egli ritiene già presente in nuce negli scritti storici di Marx.
The essay consists of two parts, dealing respectively with the use of the concept hegemony before and within Gramsci’s prison writings. The first part attempts to reconstruct a sort of “prehistory” of the term, from its Greek origin to the long eclipse in Roman times, in the middle Ages and in early modernity. I then go on to its nineteenth-century revival, first in the political vocabulary of the promoters of Italian and German national unity, and then in the Marxist debate of the Second International. But it is among the Bolsheviks that the concept took on that pregnant meaning which Gramsci began to reflect on during his stay in Moscow (1922-23), then in the period in Vienna (1923-24) and above all after his return to Italy (1924-26). The second part of the essay attempts to trace diachronically the developments of the reflection on hegemony in the Notebooks, in which the particular meanings of “political hegemony” and “civil hegemony” emerge, no longer referring solely to the proletariat but to any social class or group fighting to conquer and / or maintain power. This struggle takes place predominantly on the terrain of civil society and as protagonists sees individuals (the intellectuals), public and private institutions, and parties (the modern Prince), in an inextricable nexus between national and supranational realities. The outcome of Gramsci’s reflections constitutes a free and bold translation of Lenin’s original concept of hegemony which, moreover, he maintains is already present in embryo in the historical writings of Marx.
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Subalterno e subalterni nei “Quaderni del carcere”
Liguori, Guido
Il presente contributo indaga la presenza della famiglia di lemmi subalterno/i nell’opera di Gramsci, con particolare riferimento alle opere del carcere. Il lemma, che deriva dal lessico militare, largamente diffuso nella riflessione politica e giornalistica italiana dopo la Prima guerra mondiale e che ha in Gramsci molte e notissime esemplificazioni, appare prima come aggettivo, divenendo in seguito sostantivo. Esso designa sia le classi più marginali, sia il blocco di forze raccolte intorno alla “classe fondamentale” rivoluzionaria, la classe operaia, che è in lotta per l’egemonia, almeno potenzialmente. Questa ambivalenza semantica non è priva di problemi, ma è probabilmente anche alla base della odierna fortuna del termine. In Gramsci inoltre il lemma (o la famiglia di lemmi) subisce ulteriori allargamenti di significato, passando a designare – col progredire della riflessione carceraria – non solo le classi o i gruppi sociali, ma anche gli individui e le caratteristiche del loro essere in relazione con gli altri. E comprendendo sempre più caratteristiche culturali e non solo sociali o socioculturali, quasi sempre con significato prettamente negativo a pronte del polo positivo “egemone/egemonico”.
This contribution investigates the presence in Gramsci’s work of the family of terms relating to “subaltern”, with particular attention being paid to the prison writings. The term itself, of military origin, was widespread in political and journalistic reflections before the First World War; there are numerous very well-known examples of its use in Gramsci, first as an adjective, and then as a noun. It designates both the most marginal classes and the bloc of forces grouped around the “fundamental” revolutionary class, namely the working class, which at least potentially struggles for hegemony. The semantic ambivalence is not without its problems, but this probably lies at the base of the term’s current popularity. In Gramsci, moreover, the term (or family of terms) undergoes further expansions in meaning, passing on to designate – during his ongoing prison reflections – not only classes and social groups, but also individuals and the characteristics of their being in relation to others. And in including ever more cultural and not just social or socio-cultural characteristics, it almost always has a clearly negative meaning when compared with the positive “hegemonic” pole
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2016-09-13T13:01:41Z
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“Il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere”: cesarismo ed egemonia nel contesto della crisi organica
Antonini, Francesca
Per ragioni sia interne che esterne agli studi gramsciani le ricerche sul tema dell’egemonia hanno vissuto negli ultimi anni una rinnovata fortuna, mettendo in luce aspetti nuovi e quanto mai attuali della riflessione di Gramsci. All’interno di questo quadro ancora in parte da esplorare credo sia importante soffermarsi su un aspetto tanto trascurato dagli studiosi, quanto, a mio avviso, centrale, ovverosia quello del rapporto fra egemonia e cesarismo. Benché condensata in poche note carcerarie (ma presente già in nuce negli scritti precarcerari), l’analisi di questo fenomeno rappresenta un elemento rilevante dell’indagine gramsciana, che permette all’autore di cogliere l’essenza delle radicali trasformazioni che caratterizzano la scena politica fra Ottocento e Novecento. Nel mio saggio ho intenzione di fornire una trattazione generale ma al tempo stesso approfondita della questione, gettando luce sulla complessa costellazione di concetti a cui rimanda la categoria di cesarismo (crisi organica, rivoluzione passiva, concezione del mondo, partito) e sul quadro storico-politico che vi sta dietro (la modernità nella sua complessità).
For reasons both internal and external to Gramscian studies, research into the subject of hegemony has over the last few years acquired a renewed importance, as new and ever more actual aspects of Gramsci’s reflections have been brought to light. Within this still to be fully explored framework, I believe it is of importance to pause over one aspect that has been as much overlooked by scholars as it is, in my view, central: this is the relation between hegemony and Caesarism. Although it is condensed into just a few prison notes (but present in an embryonic form in the pre-prison writings), the analysis of this phenomenon represents an important element in Gramsci’s investigations, allowing him to grasp the essence of the radical transformations characterizing the political scene at the turn of the twentieth century. The intention of my essay is to offer a general, but at the same time in-depth, treatment of the question, by shedding light on the complex constellation of concepts implied by the category of Caesarism (organic crisis, passive revolution, conception of the world, party) and on the historico-political framework lying behind it (modernity in all its complexity)
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1060/viewcontent/9.Antonini.Cesarismo_ed_egemonia_nel_contesto_della_crisi_organica.pdf
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Bureaucracy
Caesarism
Conception of the world
Hegemony
Political party
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1061
2016-09-13T13:03:39Z
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Lingua/linguaggio, senso comune e gruppi sociali subalterni
Gaboardi, Natalìa
Durante la detenzione Gramsci ha manifestato in più occasioni la volontà di approfondire le questioni linguistiche. Le testimonianze più note sono la lettera a Tania del 19 marzo 1927, il punto 12 dell’elenco degli Argomenti principali dell’8 febbraio 1929, La quistione della lingua in Italia: Manzoni e Ascoli, e il Quaderno 29, l’ultimo dei quaderni monografici avviati presso la clinica di Formia e intitolato Note per una introduzione allo studio della grammatica, le cui riflessioni traggono spunto dalla lettura della Guida alla grammatica italiana di Alfredo Panzini. La riflessione a proposito della polemica tra Ascoli e Manzoni era già stata oggetto dell’attenzione di Gramsci. In una lettera del 17 novembre 1930 Gramsci scrive alla cognata che egli stesso, dieci anni prima, aveva raccolto materiale per un saggio sulla quistione della lingua secondo Manzoni, questione analizzata anche nell’articolo La lingua unica e l’Esperanto («Il Grido del Popolo», 16 febbraio 1918). La riflessione carceraria riprende le intuizioni giovanili, inquadrandole nella ridefinizione teorica del marxismo come filosofia della prassi. La quistione della lingua diventa così il punto di tangenza di una serie di concetti gramsciani: rapporto struttura e superstrutture, egemonia, concezione del mondo, folklore, senso comune, gruppi sociali subalterni, unità di teoria e pratica, traducibilità. Il presente contributo cerca di ripercorrere questa riflessione nei suoi momenti più significativi.
On a number of occasions during his detention, Gramsci spoke of his wish to go into linguistic questions in depth. The best known sources for this are the letter to Tania of 19 March 1927, point 12 of the Main Arguments outlined on 8 February 1929, The language question in Italy: Manzoni and Ascoli and Notebook 29, the last of the monographic notebooks, entitled Notes for an Introduction to the study of grammar, which he started at the clinic in Formia and whose reflections begin from his reading of Alfredo Panzini’s Guide to Italian Grammar. Gramsci had already devoted attention to the polemic between Ascoli and Manzoni, and in a letter to his sister-in-law of 17 November 1930 he wrote that, ten years earlier, he had collected material for an essay on the language question according to Manzoni, which was also the object of his analysis in the article A single language and Esperanto (“Il Grido del Popolo”, 16 February 1918). His reflection in prison took up again his youthful intuitions, inserting them into the framework of Marxism as a philosophy of praxis. The language question thus became the tangential point for a series of Gramscian concepts: the relationship between structure and superstructures, hegemony, the conception of the world, common sense, the subaltern social groups, the unity of theory and practice, and translatability. The present contribution seeks to bring out the most significant moments of this reflection
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Common sense
Conception of the world
Language
Subalternity
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oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1059
2016-09-13T12:59:53Z
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L’egemonia e i “subalterni”: utopia, religione, democrazia
Frosini, Fabio
La mia esposizione si divide in quattro capitoli. Il primo sarà dedicato a illustrare quella che chiamerò “egemonia post-giacobina” nei Quaderni del carcere. Il punto di partenza sarà dunque il tentativo di mostrare la presenza, nei Quaderni, non di una ma di due nozioni di egemonia. La prima di esse – quella “giacobina” – corrisponde al passaggio dall’economico-corporativo all’egemonico e al primato della “cultura”. La seconda, propria della società di massa e standardizzata degli anni Venti e Trenta, appare come un intreccio indissolubile di aspetti progressivi e regressivi, riassunti nella formula ossimorica di “rivoluzione passiva”. Il secondo capitolo metterà a fuoco questa nuova situazione, caratterizzata da una sorta di “doppio assedio” o assedio reciproco: delle masse allo Stato e viceversa e quindi da polarità costituita da burocratizzazione e democratizzazione, come due aspetti entrambi presenti nell’egemonia “capillare” e “diffusa” in atto nelle società post-belliche. Il terzo capitolo si concentrerà sulle condizioni ideologiche nelle quali si svolge la nuova lotta egemonica. In esse, la religione, in quanto forma di contatto massiccio tra governanti e governati, assume un ruolo decisivo, sia come forma di governo, sia come modalità di resistenza. Il quarto capitolo, infine, mettendo a fuoco le riflessioni di Gramsci sul concetto di “mito” come grammatica della politica di massa, esplora le possibili connessioni tra mito e democrazia, collegando così i temi trattati rispettivamente nei capitoli terzo e secondo.
My contribution is divided into four sections. The first is devoted to an illustration of what I shall call “post-Jacobin” hegemony in the Prison Notebooks. The starting point is, therefore, the attempt to demonstrate the presence in the Notebooks, of not one but two notions of hegemony. The first of these – the “Jacobin” one – corresponds to the passage from the economic-corporative to the hegemonic and to the primacy of “culture”. The second, belonging to the mass and standardized society of the 1920s and 1930s, appears as an indissoluble intertwining of progressive and regressive aspects, summarized in the oxymoron “passive revolution”. The second section focuses on this new situation, characterized by a sort of “double” or reciprocal siege – that of the masses besieging the State and vice versa – and hence by a polarity constituted by bureaucratization and democratization, as two aspects which are both present in the “capillary” and “diffused” hegemony at work in the societies that emerged from World War I. The third section concentrates on the ideological conditions in which the new hegemonic struggle takes place. In them, religion, in as much as it is a form of massive contact between the rulers and the ruled, takes on a decisive role, both as a form of government and as a mode of resistance. Lastly, the fourth section, by focusing on Gramsci’s reflections on the concept of “myth” as a grammar of mass politics, explores the eventual connections between myth and democracy, thereby connecting the arguments dealt with respectively in the second and third sections
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Democracy
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Hegemony
Religion
Subaltern classes
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1066
2016-09-13T13:34:42Z
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Pasado, presente, hegemonía
Pato, Cecilia
Desde una perspectiva de análisis que conjuga la teoría política con la historia intelectual, el artículo expone el derrotero de la experiencia gramsciana en Argentina, atendiendo especialmente el modo en que la teoría política de Antonio Gramsci fue recibida e interpretada en la revista «Pasado y Presente», en sus dos etapas (1963-1965 y 1973). Asumida la revista como espacio de intervención política y cultural, el escrito reconstruye cómo en ella influyó el legado teórico gramsciano, con especial énfasis en las reflexiones que sus principales exponentes, José Aricó y Juan Carlos Portantiero, realizaron del concepto de hegemonía.
Starting from an analytical perspective combining political theory and intellectual history, the present contribution outlines the Gramscian experience in Latin America, devoting particular attention to the two-stage (1963-65 and 1973) reception and interpretation of Gramscian political theory by the review Pasado y Presente. Taking the review as a space for political and cultural intervention, the essay reconstructs the influence it had on the legacy of Gramscian theory, with special regard to the reflections on the concept of hegemony proposed by the two people, José Aricó and Juan Antonio Portantiero, with whom the review is most associated
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss1/32
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1066/viewcontent/15.Pato_Pasado_presente_hegemon_a.pdf
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Aricó José
Communism
Hegemony
Past and Present
Portantiero Juan Carlos
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1062
2016-09-13T13:28:27Z
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Subalternity and the Mummification of Culture in Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks”
Jackson, Robert
Gramsci’s concept of mummification is rarely remarked upon in the literature and has not received the systematic treatment afforded to other concepts in his lexicon. Locating the term in the semantic field of subalternity, this article explores the connection between mummification and passivity. The origins and development of the concept of mummification are traced in Gramsci’s thought, suggesting an important role in explaining the passive constitution of the subaltern. Mummification describes an embalming process through which certain forms of culture, positive and legitimate when created, become degenerate through a process of repetition in changed circumstances. The dual nature of mummification is examined, imposed from above through strategies of dispersion wrought by the dominant groups, or emerging from below through the ‘intellectual laziness’ characteristic of ‘Lorianism’.
The different terrains upon which the term is used in the Prison Notebooks are analysed (parties, social groups, common sense, culture), proposing that these aspects of mummification are ultimately ‘translatable’ aspects of a unitary phenomenon. It is argued that the concept of mummification helps to articulate the intimate relationship between the dialectical poles of hegemony and subalternity in Gramsci’s thought. The concept is able to perform a critical function by making an incision between forms of culture that are historically opportune and those that are anachronistic, the reactionary form of the ‘living dead’. In our crisis-ridden situation, of zombie banks and vampire capital, this study of mummification is a timely consideration of the Sardinian thinker’s contribution to these themes of political monstrosity
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1062/viewcontent/11.Jackson_Subalternity_and_the_Mummification_of_Culture_in_Gramsci_s__Prison_Notebooks_.pdf
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Life
Lorianism
Mummification
Passivity
Subaltern
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1067
2016-09-13T13:38:01Z
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Dal materialismo storico alla filosofia della praxis
Vacca, Giuseppe
Contrariamente a quanto ritenuto dai primi editori e interpreti di Gramsci, l’espressione “filosofia della praxis” non è un semplice espediente al quale il prigioniero ricorre per non scrivere “materialismo storico” e aggirare così la censura carceraria, ma implica un profondo ripensamento del marxismo che si verifica nel corso della riflessione portata avanti nei Quaderni, anche se affonda le radici nello scritto sulla Quistione meridionale del 1926. Oltre a una ripresa del pensiero di Labriola (nel quale si ritrova già l’espressione “filosofia della prassi”), questa “revisione” della filosofia marxista implica non solo il definitivo distacco dal marxismo-leninismo, ma una “rottura epistemologica” rispetto ai precedenti scritti politici dello stesso Gramsci e, soprattutto, una nuova lettura dell’opera di Marx (con particolare riferimento alle Tesi su Feuerbach e alla Prefazione a Per la critica dell’economia politica), anche in relazione ai profondi rivolgimenti dello scenario politico internazionale tra la fine degli anni Venti e gli anni Trenta, che vede definitivamente tramontare la prospettiva della rivoluzione proletaria mondiale. Questo porta Gramsci ad approfondire i concetti di egemonia, intellettuali, stato, società civile, guerra di posizione, rivoluzione passiva, struttura e sovrastruttura, in una riflessione assolutamente originale che trova il suo punto d’arrivo nella costituzione del nuovo soggetto politico del mondo moderno, il partito.
Contrary to what the first editors and interpreters of Gramsci maintained, the expression “philosophy of praxis” is not a simple expedient to which he had recourse in order to avoid writing “historical materialism” and, thereby, to get round the prison censorship. The term, instead, implies a thoroughgoing rethinking of Marxism on his part which took place throughout the course of his reflections in the Notebooks, a rethink which has roots in the 1926 essay on the Southern Question. As well as taking up again the thought of Labriola (in whom the expression “philosophy of praxis” already figures), this “revision” of Marxist philosophy implies not only a definitive detachment from Marxism-Leninism, but an “epistemological break” with his own previous political writings and, above all, a new reading of Marx’s work, with particular attention paid to the Theses on Feuerbach and to the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Additionally, this also taking place in relation to the deep upheavals in the international political scenario between the end of the 1920s and the 1930s, which saw the definitive closure of the perspective of a world proletarian revolution. This led Gramsci to go in depth into the concepts of hegemony, the intellectuals, the State, civil society, war of position, passive revolution, and structure and superstructure, in an absolutely original reflection whose endpoint is the constitution of a new political subject in the modern world, namely the political party
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Hegemony
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Marxism
Philosophy of praxis
Political party
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1064
2016-09-13T13:31:43Z
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I subalterni e la religione in Gramsci. Una lettura dall’America Latina
Semeraro, Giovanni
In questo articolo si propone una analisi delle note di Gramsci sulla religione, in particolare sul cristianesimo e la Chiesa cattolica nel loro rapporto con le classi subalterne. Vengono messe in risalto le distinzioni da lui fatte tra le dimensioni “utopiche” contenute nel cristianesimo e la struttura feudale della Chiesa. A questa, che mantiene le masse popolari nella condizione di subalternità, Gramsci contrappone la “filosofia della praxis” indirizzata all’autogoverno e alla conquista dell’egemonia da parte delle classi subalterne. Nella seconda parte dell’articolo viene stabilito un contrappunto tra le considerazioni di Gramsci sulla religione (e la Chiesa cattolica) e il ruolo dei subalterni nel cristianesimo riscattato dalla Teologia della Liberazione in America Latina. Qui, di fatto, negli ultimi decenni, significativi segmenti di cristiani, valendosi di strumenti analitici del marxismo e del pensiero di Gramsci, hanno fatto una “opção pelos pobres” dando una nuova configurazione alla religione e alla politica.
This contribution proposes an analysis of Gramsci’s notes on religion, in particular on Christianity’s and the catholic Church’s relation with the subaltern classes. We highlight his distinctions between the “utopian” dimensions which Christianity contains and the feudal structure of the Church. To this latter, which maintains the popular masses in a condition of subalternity, Gramsci counterposes the “philosophy of praxis” directed towards self-government and the conquest of hegemony by the subaltern classes. In the second part of the article, we establish a counterpoint between Gramsci’s considerations on religion (and the catholic Church) and the role of the subalterns in Christianity as redeemed by Liberation Theology in Latin America. Here indeed, over the last few decades, significant sectors of Christians, making use of the analytical instruments provided by Marxism and by the thought of Gramsci, have made their ‘choice for the poor’, thereby giving religion and politics a new configuration
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1064/viewcontent/13.Semeraro_I_subalterni_e_la_religione_in_Gramsci._Una_lettura_dall_America_Latina.pdf
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Catholic Church
Christianism
Gramsci Antonio
Latin America
Theology of liberation
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1063
2016-09-13T13:30:17Z
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Hegemonia e educação: proposta gramsciana de superação da subalternidade
Rosalio, Silvia Deise
O artigo versa sobre as conceituações de subalterno e hegemonia dentro do pensamento gramsciano. O autor incita como entender os grupos sociais subalternos é fundamental para compreender como as relações sociais, econômicas e o Estado são historicamente edificados, assim como corroboram a consolidação de determinada hegemonia ao mesmo tempo em que são frutos dela. Subalternidade e hegemonia são formulações chaves para a teoria política de Gramsci e interligam-se à sua concepção de tradutibilidade por traduzirem as relações que delimitam o modo como o Estado encontra-se construído, ao mesmo tempo em que ratificam a indispensabilidade de um plano estratégico de amplo espectro para o delineamento da transformação da ordem vigente. A formação e a prática política comporiam as linguagens em que se constroem as relações de força. Nesse sentido, ressalta-se a importância da dimensão formativa para a construção estratégica de disputa de poder, demonstrando como a hegemonia e a educação encontram-se dialeticamente intrínsecas e expressam a teoria e a prática da proposta de ação política gramsciana de superação da subalternidade. As reflexões que culminaram nesse texto foram despertadas após os seminários e discussões da “Ghilarza Summer School”, Escola internacional de estudos gramscianos, desenvolvidos em Ghilarza, Sardenha, entre 8 e 12 de setembro de 2014 sobre o tema “Hegemônico/Subalterno”.
The article focuses on the conceptualizations of “subaltern” and “hegemony” in Gramsci’s thought. The author argues that understanding the nature of the subaltern social groups is of fundamental importance for understanding the way in which economic relations and the State are constituted, and the way in which these relations contribute to consolidating a given hegemony, of which they are at the same time also a product. Subalternity and hegemony are key formulae in Gramsci’s political theory, and are linked to his theory of translatability in that they translate the relations that constitute a State, at the same time as founding the necessity for a wide-ranging strategic plan for the task of transforming social relations. Pedagogical formation and political practice are, then, the languages in which the relations of force are constructed. From these nexuses there emerges the centrality of the formative dimension of the strategic construction of a struggle for power, in that hegemony and education are dialectically connected and express the theory and practice of the project as formulated by Gramsci for overcoming subalternity. The reflections that come together in this text have their origin in the seminars and discussions of the Ghilarza Summer School held at Ghilarza from 8 to 12 September 2014 on the subject of Hegemonic/subaltern
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss1/29
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1063/viewcontent/12.Rosalio_Hegemonia_e_educa__o.pdf
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Education
Hegemony
State
Subaltern
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oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1065
2016-09-13T13:33:23Z
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Antonio Gramsci no centro e na periferia: notas sobre hegemonia e subalternidade
Mussi, Daniela
Goés, Camila
O artigo investiga o desembarque do pensamento de Antonio Gramsci no centro e na periferia do meio anglófono, na Inglaterra e na Índia respectivamente. Para tal, explora a recepção das ideias gramscianas pelos intelectuais ingleses e indianos, particularmente nos escritos de Raymond Williams e Ranajit Guha. O artigo mostra como a leitura livre dos Quaderni del carcere por estes intelectuais originou novos conceitos inspirados em Gramsci, em especial a partir da unidade dialética do par conceitual hegemônico/subalterno. O artigo sublinha a originalidade da recepção das ideias do marxista sardo nos dois contextos nacionais específicos na segunda metade do século XX. Para isso, apresenta inicialmente os ambientes intelectuais e políticos em que se deu o recebimento das ideias gramscianas na Inglaterra e na Índia e, em seguida, investiga os conceitos de hegemonia e subalternidade desenvolvidos em cada caso. Por fim, oferece argumentos para compreender de maneira integrada estes dois contextos de recepção das ideias gramscianas, a partir da complexa relação centro-periferia, como um ponto de partida para uma agenda possível de investigação sobre a recepção e difusão internacional do pensamento de Antonio Gramsci.
This contribution reconstructs how Antonio Gramsci’s thought “landed” at the centre and at the periphery of the English-speaking world, here Britain and India respectively. With this in mind, it investigates the reception of Gramscian ideas by British and Indian intellectuals, in particular on the basis of the writings of Raymond Williams and Ranajit Guha. The article shows how a free reading of the Prison Notebooks by these intellectuals gave rise to new concepts of Gramscian inspiration, starting especially from the dialectical unity formed by the conceptual coupling hegemonic/subaltern. It sheds light on the originality of the reception of Gramsci’s ideas in these two national contexts in the second half of the twentieth century. With this aim, it first of all reconstructs the political and intellectual environments in which Gramscian ideas were received in Britain and in India, and thence explores the concepts of hegemony and subalternity developed in each of these two contexts. Finally, it presents arguments that aid the integrated and organic understanding of these two contexts of the reception of Gramsci’s ideas, starting from the complex centre-peripheral relationship, as the point of departure for a possible investigation of the reception and international expansion of Gramsci’s thought
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss1/31
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1065/viewcontent/14.Mussi_G_es_Antonio_Gramsci_no_centro_e_na_periferia.pdf
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England
Gramsci Antonio
Hegemony
India
Subalternity
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1068
2017-05-15T15:13:05Z
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Editorial
Boothman, Derek
Editorial
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss2/1
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1068/viewcontent/000_IGJ_Editorial.pdf
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Editorial
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1070
2017-05-15T15:22:18Z
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Gramsci e un bilancio (preventivo) dell’esperienza rivoluzionaria a Torino
Silvestrini, Flavio
Gramsci: a (Provisional) Balance-sheet of the Revolutionary Experience in Turin.
Gramsci’s report on the 1919-1920 council movement in Turin, here published for the first time in its original Italian, may fairly be said to represent a phase of passage in the (intellectual) biography of the young Sardinian. In particular, there are four interpretative elements that allow us to put the importance of this process in perspective. First, there is the balance-sheet he draws up of the Italian revolution and its possible developments; then, there is his re-evaluation of the role of the Party within a systematic theory of proletarian institutions; next, we see the theoretical-practical link-up with the top leadership of the Communist International; Gramsci specifies his own position both inside and, finally, outside the maximalist current in the light of the republication of the article in “L’Ordine Nuovo”, in its form as a daily paper, in March 1921.
Gramsci e un bilancio (preventivo) dell’esperienza rivoluzionaria a Torino
Il resoconto gramsciano sul movimento consiliare torinese del 1919-20 – di seguito pubblicato per la prima volta nella sua originale versione italiana – può, a buon diritto, individuare una fase di passaggio nella biografia (intellettuale) del giovane sardo. In particolare, quattro elementi di lettura consentono di inquadrare la rilevanza di questo processo: il bilancio sulla rivoluzione italiana e sui possibili sviluppi; la rivalutazione del ruolo del Partito all’interno di una sistematica dottrina degli istituti proletari; il collegamento teorico-pratico con i vertici dell’Internazionale Comunista; la specificazione della propria posizione dentro il massimalismo e, infine, fuori da esso anche alla luce della ripubblicazione dell’articolo, sull’«Ordine Nuovo» quotidiano, nel marzo 1921.
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Turin Council Movement
Party and Institutions
Communist International
Socialist Party
Gramsci
Torino
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Table of contents
Boothman, Derek
Table of contents
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Il movimento torinese dei Consigli di Fabbrica e Il movimento comunista a Torino
Gramsci, Antonio
Il movimento torinese dei Consigli di Fabbrica e Il movimento comunista a Torino
From the original manuscript, held in the Comintern Archives, we publish for the first time in Italian the text of the article that Gramsci wrote for the November 1920 issue of the Comintern journal “Communist International” on the communist and council movements in Turin. For comparison purposes, we include in a parallel column the article as it was then published a few months later in “L’Ordine nuovo”, with modifications (presumably by Gramsci) made in this latter version, retranslated into Italian from the published German translation. Gramsci deals with the situation in Turin and the great strikes there during the First World War, the alliances formed between the working class and other social strata, and State repression of the workers’ armed insurrections. In the midst of these events, in May 1917, there was the first mass demonstration since Italy’s entry into the war, addressed by I. P. Goldenberg and A. N. Smirnov, delegates to the West of the Petrograd Soviet, and then both Men’ševiks. They were however greeted with cries in favour of Lenin and the Bol’ševiks, whose strategy in Petrograd was later – and independently – duplicated in Turin, with factory councils being formed on the initiative of the majority communist group in the Turin Socialist Party branch. The article closes with a criticism of the role of the reformist leadership of the Socialist Party and Unions, who ignored the role of the councils as the equivalent of “soviets”, the nuclei of a future democratic State.
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Torino; Scioperi
1917
Consigli di fabbrica
Movimento comunista
Gramsci
Movimento consigliare
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The Turin Communist Movement
Gramsci, Antonio
The Communist Movement in Turin
Translator’s presentation
The specific variations between Gramsci’s two Italian texts on the Turin movement are covered in Flavio Silvestrini’s Introduzione, but a few general points should here be noted. Considerable confusion has arisen over the nature of the two versions in which the essay appeared: The Communist Movement in Turin (published in the various languages – see the editorial, above – of the journal “Communist International”, November 1920) and The Turin Workers’ Councils Movement (“L’Ordine Nuovo”, 14 March 1921). Writers have often assumed or claimed that the two essays are one and the same; this comment also applies to an English version available on the Internet, which moreover omits about a quarter of Gramsci’s text. There are, however, differences between the two articles. It seems that the manuscript, the typed-up transcription (hand-corrected by Gramsci) and its carbon copy were all sent to Moscow, so the prefatory lines (reproduced here at the start of the article itself) to the later version explain that the article as there published is based on a retranslation from the German translation of the original. Some differences between the two versions are thus explained, while the others are dealt with by Flavio Silvestrini.
Additionally, and perhaps as an aid to its translators in Moscow, some simplification is apparent in the “Communist International” version. This, for example, makes more use of the term “operai”, as noun or adjective, referring to industrial workers, as compared with “lavoratori” in the broader sense of “working people”, while the latter version makes a clearer distinction between the two. And while the latter version goes into detail on the Turin Cooperative Alliance (omitted from the English version on the Internet), this is dealt with more summarily for the international readership.
For some terms in the present translation, the nearest equivalent in the British context has been used; thus “Trades Council” is used for “Camera del Lavoro”. For “Sindacati professionali” we have used “Trade Unions”, while “sindacati” without any qualification appears simply as “unions”; workers’ “delegati” elected in a factory are “stewards” or “shop stewards”.
At the end of the manuscript written for the Comintern journal, Gramsci’s name was added by someone else in Cyrillic, followed by “Gramchi”, exactly as the name was printed at the end of the translation in number 14 of “L’Internationale Communiste”. When, years later, the essay had been forgotten by nearly everyone, at the end of the top copy of the manuscript’s typed transcript – which bears occasional corrections in Gramsci’s hand – another person added the name “Antonio Gramsci” and a comment in Italian: “Addition. Antonio’s manuscript consists of 15 pages, without crossings-out (except for pages 13 and 14). It bears no date, and no signature. Year – summer or autumn 1920. Archive of undated material. It could, even, it seems, be a report. Greetings”.
The person making these various additions to the typescript then signed himself “Tu”. A cross-check with other documents, some with specimens of handwriting, contained in the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci’s fascicules 495-010a-187 and 188, indicates that, to a fair degree of certainty, the person in question was Rigoletto Martini, whose main pseudonym was “Tutti”, sometimes seen as “Tuti”. On reaching Moscow from the Spanish Civil War, he was entrusted with reorganizing the PCI in Italy, but was arrested by the fascists and died in prison aged only 34. The combination of Martini’s age, the pseudonym appearing as an abbreviated signature, and the handwriting all point to him as author of the addendum.
As well as the crossings-out in the manuscript to which Martini draws attention, Gramsci is also sometimes unsure about how best to express a phrase, and on occasion deletes words or an initial letter then rethinking an expression. Where it is possible to see their meaning, these items appear barred and underlined in the translation, as done for the Italian transcription, e.g. “had been”, while later insertions, often above the line, are indicated in blue, e.g. “at the time”; explanatory translator’s notes in the text are in square brackets.
A 1970 pamphlet, Turin 1920. Factory Councils and General Strike, seemingly the only publication of a certain Moulinavent Press, contains an occasionally imprecise English version of the 1921 “Ordine Nuovo” article, but detailed searching of library holdings has not come up with the English-language version of the “Communist International” article. With thanks to the Comintern Archive, where Gramsci’s original is kept (location 519-1-81, pp. 1-15), we here present a fresh translation, this time of the original manuscript.
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Turin
Strikes
1917
Factory Councils
Communist Movement
Gramsci
Council Movement
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The Economic-Political Crisis in Brazil: a Reading from Some Reflections of Gramsci
Semeraro, Giovanni
The Economic-Political Crisis in Brazil: a Reading from Some Reflections of Gramsci
Abstract
Since the nineteen sixties, Gramsci has been one of the main authors inspiring the renewal of Marxism, the resistance of popular movements to the military dictatorship, and the formation of political organizations in the process of democratization in Brazil. Various of his categories, such as “passive revolution”, “transformism”, the “expanded State”, “war of movement/war of position”, “national-popular”, “hegemony” etc., have often served as a basis for interpreting the history and politics of Brazil. But, in his writings there is also a set of reflections that depict situations which are much closer to the economic and political crisis currently affecting Brazil. Among other aspects, in fact, Gramsci’s work, written between the two great wars of the last century, is characterized by the analysis of the “organic crisis” of bourgeois society, by the search for the reasons of the defeat of the revolutionary movement, and by the new possibilities opened to the “subaltern classes” in crucial historical circumstances. In the light of this background, in these few pages we will discuss the current political situation of Brazil taking into account especially the Observations on Certain Aspects of the Structure of Political Parties in Periods of Organic Crisis (Q13, § 23, pp. 1602-1613; SPN, pp. 210-218 and concluding part on pp. 167-168) and on the modern forms of Caesarism (Q13, § 27, pp. 1619-1622; SPN, pp. 219-222)*.
* Gramsci, A., Quaderni del carcere, ed. V. Gerratana, Torino, Einaudi, 1975. In the body of the text, this edition is quoted as QC, followed by the number of the notebook, the number of the paragraph (where necessary also the sub-paragraph) and page of the Italian edition, data which allow quotations to be located in the Brazilian and other integral editions. Page references are also given to English translations (SPN for Gramsci 1971; PN, vols. I, II and III for Gramsci 1992, 1996 and 2007 respectively; and FSPN for Gramsci 1995).
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Gramsci
Bonapartism
Organic Crisis
Political and Economic Crisis
Brazil
Lulism
Political Situation
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From the Nation to the People of a Potential New Historical Bloc: Rethinking Popular Sovereignty through Gramsci
Sotiris, Panagiotis
From the Nation to the People of a Potential New Historical Bloc: Rethinking Popular Sovereignty through Gramsci
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During the past decades traditional notions of sovereignty have been challenged in Europe. First, we have the erosion of sovereignty induced by the process of European Integration. Secondly, the new waves of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe and the anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies of ‘Fortress Europe’ and ‘closed borders’ along with the intensification of racism and islamophobia, both as ideological climate but also as official state policy, have opened up the debate regarding the relation between sovereignty and ethnicity. On the one hand, any attempt towards a rupture with the embedded and constitutionalised neoliberalism of the EU in order to initiate processes of social transformation and emancipation, should necessarily take the form of a reclaiming of popular sovereignty and democratic control over crucial aspects of economic and social policy. On the other hand, we must deal with the association of sovereignty with nationalism, racism and colonialism, tragically exemplified in the way the Far Right links the question of sovereignty to its own authoritarian racist agenda. To deal with these challenges I take a critical position to both neo-Kantian conceptions of cosmopolitan rights and ‘neo-republican’ defences of the nation-state and the people as common history and shared values. In contrast I suggest that we rethink the people in a ‘post-nationalist’ and de-colonial way as the emerging community of all the persons that work, struggle and hope on a particular territory, as the reflection of the emergence of a potential historical bloc
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People
Nationalism
EU
Racism
Gramsci
Historical Bloc
Popular Sovereignty
Nation
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Review: Antonio Gramsci edited by / a cura di Mark McNally
Antonini, Francesca
A Classic for Today: Gramsci’s Political Thought (on McNally’s Edited Volume)
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The article reviews the volume edited by MarkMcNally Antonio Gramsci, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan 2015.
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Gramsci
English
Historical Context
Key Debates
Major Conceptual Issues
Contemporary Relevance
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Organic Intellectuals: Legitimizing Agribusiness Production in Brazil
Saito, Carlos Hiroo
Azevedo, Andréa A.
Organic Intellectuals: Legitimizing Agribusiness Production in Brazil
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The scope of this article is to analyze the implementation of forest policy and the role played by Blairo Borges Maggi, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, during the period 2003-2010, namely the years coinciding, in the main, with both Lula’s term of office as President and with Maggi’s governorship of the Mato Grosso state. The approach and conditions of the policy were based on non-invasive technology – such as remote sensing imagery and a Geographic Information System (GIS) database regarding deforestation areas – and attempted to effectively control part of the deforestation in the State. An apparent contradiction was created, since the state governor is closely linked to the agribusiness sector. We draw on Gramsci’s concept of the organic intellectual in our analysis and explanation of this paradox in the Mato Grosso state, in order to understand the role played by Maggi in the process. Thus, we formulate the hypothesis that classifies the governor of the Mato Grosso state as not a revolutionary organic intellectual, as some might argue, but an organic intellectual whose reformist proposals are aimed at maintaining the hegemony of his particular group, which – in turn – sees the environmental theme as a threat to this hegemony.
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Gramsci
Rural Licensing
Deforestation
Organic Intellectual
Market
Natural Capital
Environment
Brazil
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Folklore come egemonia. Comprendere la cultura popolare; riconoscere la subalternità; lottare sul terreno della cultura?
Deiana, Alessandro
This article intends to expound the idea that folklore and, more generally, popular culture cannot be identified only with the material and symbolic life of subaltern groups and classes, but must also be considered as the product and the incorporation of élite and ruling class hegemony. Reconnecting folklore to hegemony is the consequent, logical and dialectical solution of the Gramscian idea of folklore as subalternity. This relationship, investigated in this article through the paradigmatic cases of folklorism and heritage, can help us to understand the dynamics of contemporary popular culture; to recognize old and new forms of subalternity; to make a contribution to the criticism of bourgeois and liberal hegemony, beyond any exclusively culturalist approach.
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folklore; popular culture; heritage; hegemony; subalternity
Anthropology
Folklore
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Popolo, popolare, populismo
Dei, Fabio
The influence of Gramsci in post-war Italian anthropology has mainly concerned the redefinition of the sphere of popular culture in terms of the hegemony-subalternity relationship. The 1950s “folklore debate”, as it was termed, revolving around the ideas of Gramsci and De Martino, completely redefined the tradition of positivistic folklore studies. In the 1960s, then, a new discipline for the study of popular culture was founded on explicit Gramscian bases – “demology”. In this paper, I examine these moments of the scientific debate in the light of the problem of political and cultural “populism”: in other words, the problem of a certain degree of autonomy in the cultural productions of subaltern classes. I argue that demology, from its very beginnings, confused the autonomy of the subaltern with the autonomy of the academic discipline. Trying to isolate “real” folklore products from hegemonic ones and from mass culture, demologists lost sight of the historical dimension prevailing in both Gramsci and De Martino. In a sense, the current crisis of demology has mainly to do with the inability to deal with the problem of populism and its changing historical faces.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1089/viewcontent/007_IGJ_Dei_208_238.pdf
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Gramsci
De Martino
folklore
popular culture
populism
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Folklore
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Gramsci in antropologia politica. Connessioni sentimentali, monografie integrali e senso comune delle lotte subalterne
Ciavolella, Riccardo
The current article starts from the hypothesis that, despite their different intentionalities, political anthropology and Gramsci’s thought converge in the attempt to understand the political subjectivity of the subaltern groups and popular masses. The article then goes on to present the way in which Gramsci confronted the question in order to then discuss, in a chronological perspective, from the origin of the discipline to the present day, the contributions of political anthropology – sometimes under the direct influence of Gramsci – in the light of his considerations regarding the political dimension to the cultural expressions of the subaltern classes and also as regards the dilemmas that anthropology faces between the quest for a “connection of feeling” and the risk of a “populist representation.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1088/viewcontent/006_IGJ_Ciavolella_174_207.pdf
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Political anthropology
populism
representation
popular culture
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Political Science
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L’incanto del serpente. Gramsci in contrappunto tra Giorgio Baratta e Alberto M. Cirese
Testa, Eugenio
The relationship between Giorgio Baratta and Alberto Mario Cirese was short but intense. They actually met in the Spring of 2008, and Baratta died less than two years later. But from the beginning Baratta treated Cirese with both human warmth and a respect for his scientific work that won the confidence of the older scholar. Gramsci was the link between them. Cirese had studied and discussed Gramsci’s work for something like thirty years, starting from the early publications of the prison work. Baratta really discovered Cirese’s work on Gramsci much later, probably only when he was working on his 2007 book, Antonio Gramsci in contrappunto (Antonio Gramsci in Counterpoint). He deeply appreciated Cirese’s work, and felt he had to meet him and to initiate a direct dialogue with him. The meeting took place, and Baratta was able to promote a rich two-day conference in Sardinia on October 2008, with Cirese himself as guest of honour and the participation of many other scholars.
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Giorgio Baratta
Alberto Mario Cirese
Philosophy
Anthropology
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Introduzione dei curatori
Tosi Cambini, Sabrina
Frosini, Fabio
Introduzione dei curatori
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Introduzione dei curatori
Philosophy
Anthropology
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«Un nuovo tipo umano». Per un antropologia del lavoro industriale a partire da «Americanismo e Fordismo»
Redini, Veronica
This article aims to show the relevance of Gramsci’s reflections presented in “Americanism and Fordism” in ethnographic practice and the anthropological analysis of contemporary industrial work. Starting from research on working conditions in Romania, the author analyzes work discipline and the discipline of sexual life, showing how capitalism proceeds at the level of the relationship between capital and labour and between the sphere of production and reproduction.
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Americanism and Fordism
Anthropology of Industrial Work
Work Conditions
Supply Chains
Global Capitalism
Anthropology
Sociology
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Via Gramsci: Hegemony and Wars of Position in the Streets of Prato
L. Krause, Elizabeth
Bressan, Massimo
Unfathomable economic pressures have warped an Italian textile district. The city of Prato, Italy, serves as an ethnographic laboratory of globalization and crisis. Labeled the most multicultural city of Europe, Prato ranks No. 1 in terms of ratios of foreign residents to local citizens. Residents grapple with bewildering transformations and contrasts in work rhythms. Chinese immigrants own or are employed in more than 5,200 Chinese firms registered in Prato’s Chamber of Commerce, a large portion of which manufacture or wholesale low-cost fast fashion. Different tempos manifest in two neighborhoods, where residents, engaged urban planners, and anthropologists have launched efforts to counter segregation and xenophobia. This article takes a Gramscian perspective to expose struggles in different “wars of position.” On the one hand, a right-wing mayor sustained a hostile and coercive approach to dealing with the immigrant presence. On the other hand, residents along with engaged urban planners and anthropologists launched a counter-effort in a working-class neighborhood that has transitioned from Little Italy to Little Wenzhou. The presence of transnational migrant workers and their families has made the neighborhoods more complex, presenting new challenges and opportunities for realizing mixité.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1083/viewcontent/001_IGJ_Krause_Bressan_31_66.pdf
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Urban ethnography
immigration
hegemony
action
diversity
Anthropology
Ethnography
Sociology
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2017-12-29T16:35:43Z
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History as Palimpsest. Notes on Subalternity, Alienation, and Domination in Gramsci, De Martino, and Fanon
Beneduce, Roberto
The article aims at considering a number of issues common to the theoretical projects of Gramsci, de Martino, and Fanon, though the context of their work and their life trajectories was so different. More particularly, my analysis takes into consideration the debate on folklore and its natural opposition to hegemonic world representations; the special role of protest and historical consciousness among subalterns; the value of a “symptomatic reading” (Althusser) of history, able to recognize those fractures, silences, and contradictions that are often forgotten by official history, or just classified as signs of alienation. This perspective allows us to see history as a palimpsest, and the subalterns’ speech recognizable only when we explore all the strata that compose their history.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1087/viewcontent/005_IGJ_Beneduce_134_173.pdf
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subaltern world
colony
symptomatic reading of past
collective consciousness
folklore
Anthropology
Sociology
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1081
2017-12-29T16:26:10Z
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Editors’ Introduction
Tosi Cambini, Sabrina
Frosini, Fabio
Editors’ Introduction
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1081/viewcontent/0_IGJ_Tosi_Cambini_Frosini_Introd_EN_2_16.pdf
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Editors’ Introduction
Philosophy
Anthropology
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2017-12-29T16:16:35Z
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Frosini, Fabio
Table of contents
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1080
2017-12-29T16:20:48Z
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Editorial
Boothman, Derek
Editorial
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/3
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1080/viewcontent/00_IGJ_Editorial_1.pdf
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Editorial
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1078
2017-12-29T16:14:04Z
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Cover Page Vol. 2, 2017, n. 3
Frosini, Fabio
Cover Page Vol. 2, 2017, n. 3
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Cover Page Vol. 2
2017
n. 3
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1085
2017-12-29T16:32:53Z
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Recuperare la scalarità del denso, tra resistenza e studying up
Simonicca, Alessandro
The essay starts with Kate Crehan's reflection on Gramsci's contribution to anthropology and compares it with Sherry Ortner’s positions of 1995 and 2017 on the nature of anthropological ethnography. The proposal is to look at the anthropological “density”, in Geertz’s connotation, in terms of multiplicity of cultural identities, plural sources of knowledge and varied intersections of points of view, which cannot be attributed to a spatially “common sense” or to a unified political point of view.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/8
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1085/viewcontent/003_IGJ_Simonicca_87_112.pdf
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Ethnography
Thickness
Resistance
Studying up
Gramsci
Anthropology
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1090
2017-12-29T16:39:17Z
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Gramsci’s «Prison Notebooks» and the “re-foundation” of anthropology in post-war Italy
Satta, Gino
In the 1970s, when the identity of Italian “demo-ethno-anthropological” studies was being defined and their academic status consolidated, scholars debated the features of a national tradition of studies. Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks were then presented as the source of new ideas, which in the aftermath of WWII contributed in decisive ways to a renewal of scholarly theory, helping scholars to get rid of romantic leftovers such as the notion of “people-nation”, and encouraging them to turn away from “picturesque” oddities to address important social and cultural issues. This inscription of Gramsci into the genealogy of Italian anthropological studies, which recognizes the important role his thought played in scholarly debates, nonetheless risks concealing the different readings his reflections received when they were first published soon after the war (1948-1951). The paper focuses on the debate regarding Gramsci and folklore organized by the Gramsci Institute in Rome in the late spring of 1951, in order to sketch out an array of very different readings of Gramsci’s contribution to the study of folklore. On that occasion Paolo Toschi, a recognized and distinguished scholar, dismissed Gramsci’s theoretical contribution and presented Gramsci as an amateur folklorist, while Ernesto De Martino, a young scholar still in search of academic recognition, gave a very one-sided and political interpretation of Gramsci’s thought, which he was later to radically rethink. Alberto Cirese, attending the debate as a very young man, was later to propose a third and very influential reading of Gramsci’s observations. Through the prism of these different readings, the post-war Gramscian moment of Italian anthropology appears as something much more complex and controversial than 1970s accounts would have it.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/13
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1090/viewcontent/008_IGJ_Satta_239_257.pdf
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History of anthropology; Ernesto De Martino; Antonio Gramsci; Alberto Mario Cirese; Folklore
Anthropology
Folklore
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1092
2017-12-29T16:41:44Z
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Lo studio «disinteressato» come nuovo terreno applicativo della scienza dell’educazione
La Porta, Lelio
Cultural anthropology, educational science and philosophy are closely connected. Can this close connection find practical application ? This essay will try to answer the question in Gramscian terms, by taking into consideration the methodological approach suggested by Gramsci, with the concept of “disinterested study”, applying it the scholastic field, that is the relation of supremacy-direction to subordination that is established between teacher and learner. The starting point and laboratory is the Italian school, that is the real place in which the method of disinterested study is applied. The protagonists are the teacher (meaning anyone who is teaching), on one side, and the pupil on the other. The teacher must possess the ability to lead, while the pupil is required to study and carry out research, in addition to having the discipline and scientific accuracy necessary in order to overcome his initially subordinate situation. This new relationship between teacher and learner may allow the real and true anthropological Gramscian option to be realized: namely through the work which results from the uprooting of situation of subordination, it is possible to arrive to the progressive rooting of a situation in which critical self-awareness is undertaken, thereby arriving at full autonomy.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/15
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1092/viewcontent/010_IGJ_La_Porta_288_305.pdf
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Subalternity
formation
liberty
master
pupil
Philosophy
Education
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1093
2017-12-29T16:42:58Z
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Filosofia, filologia, e il «senso delle masse»
Dainotto, Roberto
Through a close reading of Q1§47, “Hegel and Associationism”, the essay delves into a dominant problematic of the Prison Notebooks: how to organize a revolutionary mass movements when the modern “integral State” establishes its hegemony by organizing public opinion and disorganizing dissent? The question entails, from a Gramscian perspective, the possibility of resolving and organically synthesizing a series of antinomies that State hegemony tends to keep separated, both conceptually and practically: coercion and consent; intellectuals and masses; theory and practice.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/16
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1093/viewcontent/011_IGJ_Dainotto_306_330.pdf
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Revolutionary mass movements
State hegemony
Coercion and consent
Intellectuals
Philosophy
Italian Studies
Political Science
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1095
2017-12-29T16:45:31Z
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Pluralismo degli ordinamenti giuridici e le «“nuove” credenze popolari» gramsciane: la sfida della modernità
M. Lombardi Satriani, Luigi
This presentation deals with the importance of Gramsci’s thought for a critical assessment of folklore and its function vis-à-vis hegemonic culture. The contraposition that Gramsci singles out in the conceptions of folklore constitutes a critical nucleus which, for example, would lead anthropological thought in the 1970s to develop the conception of folklore as a culture of contestation, inclusive of the various levels of contestation. This conception animated anthropological debate in those years and the immediately successive decades. One can, moreover, single out in other extracts from Gramsci’s work, considered in its entirety, critical annotations of the greatest interest which are intended, in the new culture that he hoped for, to recover norms and practical rules of conduct having the solidity and imperativeness of traditional popular beliefs. These are aspects which open up the way to a juridical anthropology understood in a modern manner, and are testimony, even in this light, to the innovative approach of the Sard scholar and political activist.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/18
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1095/viewcontent/013_IGJ_Lombardi_Satriani_342_350.pdf
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Legal Order
Folklore; Popular Culture Juridical Anthropology
Anthropology
Folklore
Law
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1094
2017-12-29T16:44:21Z
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Egemonia e gerarchia, tracce nei «Quaderni del carcere»
Solinas, Piergiorgio
We attempt a reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks through the filter of certain specific categories: the “organic”, the “collective will” and “hierarchy”. A number of problematic links are proposed between the social and cultural dimensions of the approaches to the image of the people, classes and power. So far, the anthropological reception of the Notebooks had been confined within the possible codes of translation (culture / Weltanschauung; social morphology / class structure; enculturation / consciousness, and so on). My comments here seek an inner meaning of praxis as a science of power, power physiology and model of its relation with social consciousness as a possible paradigm for our anthropological understanding. From this specific perspective, the category of hierarchy appears as a possible dynamic concept reshaped by the modernized systems of consensus and the nurturing of ordinary scales of inequality: voluntary and ethically approved degrees of social value, participation in submission, and support of and communal trust in values and cultural patterns. Is Gramsci’s theory of collective thought and “organic” cohesion an efficient device for contemporary social science? It would be desirable for a lay approach to the vertical dimension of culture as a valued tool of the social self to be made useful to the present.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/17
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1094/viewcontent/012_IGJ_Solinas_331_341.pdf
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Hierarchy
Power
Inequality
Collective thought
“Organic” cohesion
Philosophy
Anthropology
Political Science
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1096
2017-12-29T16:46:44Z
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Notizie sul «Regesto gramsciano» di Alberto M. Cirese
Testa, Eugenio
Between 1975 and 1985, Alberto M. Cirese coordinated a research group formed by scholars from the Universities of Cagliari, Ferrara, Rome, Siena and Turin, the goal of which was to build a lexicon of terms and concepts used by Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks, and which would be of importance for anthropological studies. The project was named the “Regesto gramsciano” (“Gramscian register”) since the researchers had the primary task of retrieving all the occurrence of the terms chosen and then photocopying them. The work produced a large number of index cards, related to some dozens of lemmas, but was never completed. A copy of the card collection is now held by the Universities of Cagliari and Turin and “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/19
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1096/viewcontent/014_IGJ_Testa_Regesto_351_356.pdf
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Prison Notebooks
Gramscian anthropological lexicon
Alberto Maria Cirese
Anthropology
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1097
2017-12-29T16:47:58Z
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Gramsci ed io. Intervista (a cura di Sabrina Tosi Cambini e Fabio Frosini)
Clemente, Pietro
Interview with Pietro Clemente, conducted by Sabrina Tosi Cambini and Fabio Frosini
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/20
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1097/viewcontent/015_IGJ_Clemente_357_371.pdf
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Interview
Anthropology
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1098
2017-12-29T16:49:15Z
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Pour Tosel, un Aufklärer dans les Holzwege gramsciens
Crézégut, Anthony
Pour André Tosel
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss3/21
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1098/viewcontent/016_IGJ_Cr_z_gut_372_403.pdf
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André Tosel
Illuminismo
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2018-07-11T15:50:02Z
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Cover Page
Frosini, Fabio
Cover Page
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1101
2018-07-11T15:53:03Z
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Table of contents
Frosini, Fabio
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2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/2
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1101/viewcontent/000_Table_of_content__IGJ.pdf
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oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1102
2018-07-11T16:17:28Z
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Editorial
Boothman, Derek
Editorial
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/3
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1102/viewcontent/00_IGJ_Editorial_1_2.pdf
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Editorial
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1103
2018-07-11T15:58:04Z
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La crítica al objetivismo y la propuesta epistemológico-política contenida en el Cuaderno 11 (en español)
Balsa, Javier
En este artículo se analiza la relación entre objetividad, ciencia y práctica política, a partir de una relectura de los Cuadernos de la cárcel, de Antonio Gramsci, haciendo particular hincapié en el Cuaderno 11. En este sentido, se aborda, en primer lugar, su crítica al fetichismo de la ciencia, al objetivismo y al materialismo vulgar. En segundo lugar, se analiza su propuesta de una nueva síntesis (basada en un trabajo sobre el sentido común) y el tipo de intelectuales orgánicos necesarios para desarrollar este trabajo ideológico. En tercer lugar, se estudia la articulación que Gramsci establece entre determinismo y pasividad de los subalternos. Para finalizar, se aborda la forma en que Gramsci reconoce la tensión entre ideología y ciencia, entre objetividad y subjetividad, y cómo, para él, esta misma tensión repercute sobre la práctica de la lucha ideológica.
In questo articolo si propone un’analisi della relazione tra l’oggettività, la scienza e la pratica politica sulla base di una rilettura dei Quaderni del carcere di Antonio Gramsci, incentrata in particolare nel Quaderno 11. Pertanto, si propone anzitutto una ricostruzione della critica gramsciana del feticismo della scienza, dell’oggettivismo e del materialismo volgare. In secondo luogo, si esamina la sua proposta di una nuova sintesi (poggiante sul lavoro sul senso comune) e il tipo di intellettuali organici indispensabili allo sviluppo di questo lavoro ideologico. In terzo luogo, si studia l’articolazione che Gramsci istituisce tra il determinismo e la passività dei subalterni. Infine, si prende in considerazione il modo in cui Gramsci riconosce l’esistenza di una tensione tra ideologia e scienza, tra oggettività e soggettività, e come, secondo lui, questa stessa tensione si ripercuota sulla pratica della lotta ideologica.
This article analyses the relationship between objectivity, science and political practice based on a re-reading of especially Notebook 11 of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. In the first place, we put forward a reconstruction of his critique of science, objectivism and vulgar materialism. Secondly, we examine his proposal for a new synthesis, based on his work on common sense, and the type of organic intellectuals necessary for the development of this ideological work. Thirdly, we study the articulation that Gramsci establishes between determinism and the passivity of the subalterns. Last, we consider the way in which Gramsci recognizes the existence of a tension between ideology and science, between objectivity and subjectivity, and how, in his view, this self-same tension has its repercussions on the practice of ideological struggle.
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/4
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1103/viewcontent/01_IGJ_Balsa_3_36.pdf
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Objetivismo; ciencia; práctica política; trabajo ideológico; subalternos; Cuaderno 11; Oggettività; scienza; pratica politica; lavoro ideologico; subalterni; Quaderno 11; Objectivity; science; political practice; ideological work; subalterns; Notebook 11
Gramsci and science
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1105
2018-07-11T16:01:50Z
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Scritti (1910-1926). Vol. 2, Scritti 1917, a cura di Leonardo Rapone (in italiano)
Savant, Giovanna
In this editorial presentation of Giovanna Savant’s review article and her detailed reconstruction of the historical context to Gramsci’s journalistic output in 1917, notes to page numbers where not otherwise specified are to the volume of the National Edition edited by Leonardo Rapone. Cross references are included to aid readers in finding articles included in the earlier publications of Gramsci’s pre-prison writings; the English-language version of her article also includes references to standard English translations, where available . It should be borne in mind that Gramsci’s various newspaper articles were at times heavily censored and a great merit of Rapone’s volume, apart from its more authoritative attribution of authorship, is to have often found the censored passages in archives or outlying areas where the censorship was less rigid and reinstated them. Readers should therefore realize that words quoted in the text of Savant’s contribution are not always to be found in the standard Italian collections of Gramsci’s writings, but sometimes only in the volume which she here discusses.
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/6
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1105/viewcontent/03_IGJ_Savant_IT_83_115.pdf
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Journalism 1917; new attributions; situation in Turin; nationalism; critique of socialists; Russian revolutions
Gramsci’s writings in 1917
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1104
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Labour Movements and State Formation in Turkey: Passive Revolution and Uneven Development (in English)
Sylvest, Jonas
This article aims to apply the theory of Antonio Gramsci to labour-state relations in Turkey. More specifically it seeks to highlight the causes of political instability and the contradictory course of labour politics, mainly in the 1950-1980 period, from a Gramscian perspective. On the basis mainly of the Gramscian studies of Adam D. Morton (2011) and the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (Gramsci 1971, 1975, 1992, 1996, 2007), the article illustrates how class struggles indicative to the formation of the modern Turkish state, within the conditions of uneven capitalist development, resulted in a political stalemate in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Through the application of such concepts as passive revolution, uneven and combined development and the capitalist type of state, the author seeks to clarify how labour-state relations in Turkey are intrinsically linked to modern state formation. This involves the concomitant co-optation of labour movements and establishment of market relations, rooted in an international uneven and combined capitalist system.
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/5
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1104/viewcontent/02_IGJ_Sylvest_37_82.pdf
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Turkey; passive revolution; integral state; uneven and combined development; labour-state relations; parties and trade unions
Modern Turkey; labour
parties and state
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1106
2018-07-11T16:06:45Z
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Scritti [Writings] (1910-1926). Vol. 2, Scritti [Writings] 1917, Leonardo Rapone (ed.) (in English)
Savant, Giovanna
In this editorial presentation of Giovanna Savant’s review article and her detailed reconstruction of the historical context to Gramsci’s journalistic output in 1917, notes to page numbers where not otherwise specified are to the volume of the National Edition edited by Leonardo Rapone. Cross references are included to aid readers in finding articles included in the earlier publications of Gramsci’s pre-prison writings; the English-language version of her article also includes references to standard English translations, where available . It should be borne in mind that Gramsci’s various newspaper articles were at times heavily censored and a great merit of Rapone’s volume, apart from its more authoritative attribution of authorship, is to have often found the censored passages in archives or outlying areas where the censorship was less rigid and reinstated them. Readers should therefore realize that words quoted in the text of Savant’s contribution are not always to be found in the standard Italian collections of Gramsci’s writings, but sometimes only in the volume which she here discusses.
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/7
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1106/viewcontent/04_IGJ_Savant_EN_116_150.pdf
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Journalism 1917; new attributions; situation in Turin; nationalism; critique of socialists; Russian revolutions
Gramsci’s writings in 1917
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1109
2018-07-11T16:11:42Z
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Correspondence, Vol. 2, May 1922-November 1923, Davide Bidussa, Francesco Giasi and Maria Luisa Righi (eds) (in English)
La Porta, Lelio
Gramsci’s correspondence January-November 1923 includes both political letters (to and from him, a number published here for the first time) and also personal ones, some redated and, in consequence, having as recipient not the Schucht sister (Julija) to whom they were until recently thought to be addressed. The background information supplied to the political letters, and inclusion in the volume of the letters received by Gramsci, helps to flesh out the general context of what was happening in both the Comintern and in the Italian Communist Party. In the aftermath of the Fourth Congress of the International (November-December 1922) a clarification of positions began in the PCI, with what would become the centre group around Gramsci distancing itself both from Bordiga’s left and from Tasca’s right (later incorporated into the centre). Further, under pressure from the International, moves – not accepted by everyone – began towards a stable alliance between the infant Communist Party and the pro-Comintern left of the Socialist Party (the Third Internationalist fraction); after the last relatively free elections, the majority of this fraction then merged with the PCI into what became a united Communist Party.
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/10
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1109/viewcontent/07_La_Porta_EN_163_170.pdf
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Letters 1923; Comintern; Schucht sisters; Third Internationalists; founding of “L’Unità”; centre group in PCI
Gramsci’s political correspondence 1923; Gramsci’s relationships with Evgenija and Julija Schucht
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2018-07-11T16:13:33Z
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Giancarlo de Vivo: Nella bufera del Novecento: Antonio Gramsci e Piero Sraffa tra lotta politica e teoria critica [In the Storm of the Twentieth Century. Antonio Gramsci and Piero Sraffa between Political Struggle and Critical Theory] (in English)
Naldi, Nerio
This book review discusses the recent volume of Giancarlo de Vivo, which offers a documented reconstruction of the role of the economist Piero Sraffa as the link between the prisoner Gramsci and the Italian Communist Party leadership in exile. Sraffa is shown to have acted autonomously of the party when Gramsci’s wishes, as expressed in two letters in particular to his sister-in-law, Tat’jana, were for caution to be adopted in regard to the leadership’s positions. There is also an analysis and defence of Sraffa’s position in regard to the controversial 1928 letter from a party leader abroad (Grieco), before Gramsci was sentenced, which the prisoner considered to have worsened his position. This seems not to be true, but what did worsen attempts to ameliorate his position was publication in translation in L’Humanité of Professor Aracangeli’s medical report on him. The stances of Sraffa and Gramsci on questions regarding the nature of historical materialism and the philosophy of praxis are taken into consideration, as are the first steps taken by Sraffa in formulating his challenge to the dominant neo-classical school in economics, an opposition which found its greatest expression in Sraffa’s 1960 volume, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (Produzione di merci a mezzo di merci).
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/11
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1110/viewcontent/08_Naldi_171_178.pdf
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Relations Gramsci-Sraffa-PCI leadership; attempts to reduce sentence; letter from Grieco; philosophy of praxis; challenge to neo-classical economics
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1108
2018-07-11T16:10:17Z
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Epistolario, Vol. 2, maggio 1922-novembre 1923, a cura di Davide Bidussa, Francesco Giasi e Maria Luisa Righi (in italiano)
La Porta, Lelio
Gramsci’s correspondence January-November 1923 includes both political letters (to and from him, a number published here for the first time) and also personal ones, some redated and, in consequence, having as recipient not the Schucht sister (Julija) to whom they were until recently thought to be addressed. The background information supplied to the political letters, and inclusion in the volume of the letters received by Gramsci, helps to flesh out the general context of what was happening in both the Comintern and in the Italian Communist Party. In the aftermath of the Fourth Congress of the International (November-December 1922) a clarification of positions began in the PCI, with what would become the centre group around Gramsci distancing itself both from Bordiga’s left and from Tasca’s right (later incorporated into the centre). Further, under pressure from the International, moves – not accepted by everyone – began towards a stable alliance between the infant Communist Party and the pro-Comintern left of the Socialist Party (the Third Internationalist fraction); after the last relatively free elections, the majority of this fraction then merged with the PCI into what became a united Communist Party.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/9
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1108/viewcontent/06_La_Porta_IT_156_162.pdf
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Letters 1923; Comintern; Schucht sisters; Third Internationalists; founding of “L’Unità”; centre group in PCI
Gramsci’s political correspondence 1923; Gramsci’s relationships with Evgenija and Julija Schucht
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Quaderni di traduzioni (1929-1932) [Translation Notebooks (1929-1932)], 2 vols, Giuseppe Cospito and Gianni Francioni (eds) (in English)
Wagner, Birgit
Before Gramsci was given permission to write what we now know as his Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks), he filled four other notebooks with translations (mainly from German, but also from Russian and some exercises from English); he also then included some translations from Marx in Notebook 7 in particular. In the translation notebooks we see him as an “apprentice translator”, certainly, but also note his overall approach to problems that are the constant preoccupation of translation scholars, his translations of the collection of folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm being a case in point. Among other texts translated are a volume on historical linguistics and the 1927 number of “Die literarische Welt” on the new school of American social fiction, exemplifying the growing strata of United States intellectuals. The nineteenth-century Russian classics also aroused his interest for their link with and input into social ferment that was then beginning to grow in that country. Thus the link with some of the themes and subjects of what all regard as his major work and interests emerges clearly in these hitherto rather neglected notebooks.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol2/iss4/8
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1107/viewcontent/05_IGJ_Wagner_151_155.pdf
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Translatability; linguistics; Gramsci’s translation work; folk tales; contemporary American literature; Marx
Gramsci’s translation notebooks; translatability
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Cover Page
Boothman, Derek
Cover Page
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/1
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1112/viewcontent/1_Cover_page.pdf
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Cover Page
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Tabella dei contenuti / Table of contents
Boothman, Derek
Tabella dei contenuti, Table of contents
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1113/viewcontent/2_Tabella_dei_contenuti_Table_of_contents.pdf
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Tabella dei contenuti
Table of contents
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1116
2019-04-28T10:58:32Z
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Editorial
Boothman, Derek
Editorial
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/3
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1116/viewcontent/3_Editorial.pdf
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Editorial
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1115
2019-04-28T10:53:49Z
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Necrologio: Joseph A. Buttigieg
Liguori, Guido
Questo articolo è il necrologio di Joseph A. Buttigieg, Presidente dell’International Gramsci Society, ad opera di Guido Liguori, autore di diverse pubblicazioni su Gramsci e Presidente dell’IGS-Italia
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/4
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1115/viewcontent/4_Necrologio_di_Joe_Il_Manifesto_Guido.pdf
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Buttigieg
Italy
intellettuale organico
International Gramsci Society
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1117
2019-04-28T14:16:59Z
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Obituary: Joseph A. Buttigieg (1947-2019)
Mayo, Peter
This is an obituary of Joseph A. Buttigieg by a long-time collaborator and friend of his, Professor Peter Mayo of the University of Malta, who apart from – and often overlapping with his Gramsci studies – carries out specialist research and teaching on educational matters.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1117/viewcontent/5_Joseph_Buttigieg_Obituary_autore_Mayo.pdf
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Buttigieg
Gramsci
literature
prison notebooks
culture
politics
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Dizionario gramsciano / Gramsci dictionary: Hegemony
Cospito, Giuseppe
Hegemony is by now the most widely used concept of all those found in the Prison Notebooks and developed there by Gramsci. The first use in the Notebooks occurs very early on, purely in the sense of a political hegemony exercised by the so-called “Moderates” in the Risorgimento. There is no unique meaning attached to “hegemony” but an oscillation between a narrow “leadership” as contrasted with “domination” and a broader one which includes both “leadership” and “domination”, leading the allied classes or groups and dominating the opposing ones: in Gramsci’s words, the “ ‘normal’ exercise of hegemony” is characterized by a “combination of force and consent”. Hegemony is exercised across a variety of fields – not solely political as in the first use of the term, but “political-intellectual”, “intellectual, moral and political”, “politico-cultural” and “cultural”. And the content of political hegemony “must be predominantly of an economic order”. The intellectuals, as defined and discussed by Gramsci in the Notebooks, occupy a particular role in the exercise of hegemony in society by the dominant group and in the domination over society embodied by the State. In a struggle for hegemony, a subaltern group must go beyond the economic-corporative phase, to advance to “political-intellectual hegemony in civil society and become dominant in political society”. Hegemony is intimately connected with democracy, such that in a hegemonic system “there is democracy between the leading groups and the groups that are led”.
[N.b. All footnotes in Cospito’s contribution are editorial additions; other editorial additions in the text are given in square brackets, whereas curly brackets are used to indicate the author’s textual abbreviations.]
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/7
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1119/viewcontent/7_Hegemony_Dictionary_entry_by_Cospito.pdf
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Hegemony
domination
consent
civil society
political society
State.
Prison Notebooks
Gramsci
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2019-04-28T14:25:25Z
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Gramsci was a Shibboleth
Baier, Walter
During his lifetime, Antonio Gramsci concerned himself little with political events in Austria. Similarly, his posthumously published writings had little influence on the left-of-centre political landscape in that country. Nevertheless, the following interview with Walter Baier, former Chairman of the Austrian Communist Party, examines some of the points of contact and connections between Gramsci and the Austrian Left during the twentieth century. Such points of contact include a) Gramsci’s stay in Vienna between 1923 and 1924 and his critical relationship with Austro-Marxism from a philosophical and political point of view; b) the peripheral influence of Gramsci’s thought on early Eurocommunism in the Austrian Communist Party between 1965 and 1969, which was due above all to the efforts of Franz Marek; c) the Marxist-Leninist reception of Gramsci’s work by the leadership of the Austrian Communist Party which took place at the beginning of the 1980s and was intended as a defensive manoeuvre to counter heterodox interpretations of Marxism within and outside the party; and d) the possible significance of Gramsci for Otto Bauer’s concept of integral Socialism, seen as a revolutionary transformational project for the incipient twenty-first century.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1122/viewcontent/10_Gramsci_was_a_Shibboleth.pdf
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Bauer
Gramsci
Austro-Marxism
integral socialism
KPÖ
Gramsci and Austria
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2019-04-28T14:27:11Z
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Critica dell’economia politica e critica della filosofia nei Quaderni del carcere
Thomas, Peter D.
This text reconstructs the integral relationship between the development of Gramsci’s notion of the philosophy of praxis’s “new concept of immanence” and his novel reflections on the theoretical significance of classical political economy and its critique. Against perspectives that argue for an opposition within Marxism between philosophy and the critique of political economy, this text argues that Prison Notebooks instead present a powerful argument for their complementary development in a genuinely critical Marxist social and political theory.
Riassunto
Questo testo ricostruisce il rapporto integrale tra lo sviluppo della nozione gramsciana del “nuovo concetto di immanenza” della filosofia della praxis e le originali riflessioni di Gramsci sul significato teorico dell’economia politica classica e la critica ad essa. Contro le prospettive che sostengono l’opposizione dentro il marxismo tra la filosofia e la critica dell’economia politica, in questo testo si sostiene invece che i Quaderni del carcere presentano un potente argomento a favore del loro sviluppo complementare in una teoria marxista sociale e politica genuinamente critica.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/11
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1123/viewcontent/11_Thomas_Critica_economia_politica_e_critica_filosofia.pdf
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New concept of immanence
critique of political economy
critique of philosophy
philosophy of praxis
Ricardo
Sraffa.
Gramsci; critique of political economy
critique of philosophy.
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1118
2019-04-28T14:18:51Z
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Dizionario gramsciano / Gramsci dictionary: subaltern / Subalterns
Buttigieg, Joseph A.
The Dizionario gramsciano entry, in the original English “Subaltern / Subalterns”, deals with different subaltern groups and classes, in particular those discussed in the late, monographic Notebook 25 titled “At the Margins of History. (History of the Subaltern Social Groups)”. The concept of a subaltern social group or class encompasses, but goes much wider than, the working class or proletariat. The subaltern groups mentioned by Gramsci go from the classical world in the “West” (ancient Rome in particular), through the Middle Ages to the modern era. A key historiographical and conceptual reference point for him, regarding the struggle – or lack of struggle – for hegemony by the subalterns lay in the movement for unification of the modern Italian State. As early as the first notebook, we read that the most progressive forces of the Risorgimento, embodied in the “Action Party”, were subject to “the initiative of the dominant groups”, represented by the “Moderates”, and as such its leading organs resembled subaltern groups. The history of the subaltern groups is “necessarily fragmented and episodic”, the groups themselves being separate from one another, having various degrees of marginality and of socially subaltern nature, albeit with tendencies towards unification. These tendencies are however “continually broken up through the initiative of the dominant groups”, with any “‘spontaneous’ movement on their part being countered by a reactionary movement of the right of the dominant classes”. Spontaneity must be integrated with conscious leadership – the task of any political party constructing an alternative hegemony on the side of the subalterns.
[N.b. All footnotes in Buttigieg’s contribution are editorial additions; other editorial additions in the text are given in square brackets, whereas curly brackets are used to indicate the author’s textual abbreviations.]
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/6
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1118/viewcontent/6_Subalterns_Joe_Buttigieg_Dictionary_article_quotes_in_English.pdf
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Subaltern groups
subaltern classes
margins of history
fragmentation
spontaneity
Subalterns
prison notebooks
Gramsci
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2019-04-28T14:21:41Z
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Gramsci in English
Buttigieg, Joseph A.
The article retraces the how Gramsci’s major writings, mainly though not exclusively from the Prison Notebooks and then the Prison Letters, were made available to Anglophone readers. The main process got underway in the later 1950s in the attempt to present a non-dogmatic Marxism. As such, a major contribution came somewhat later from another source, John Cammett’s 1967 book Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism. The British “New Left Review” was instrumental around this time in publishing some material and paving the way for the influential 1971 anthology Selections from the Prison Notebooks, followed by an English version of Giuseppe Fiori’s biography, Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary and by selections in the late 1970s from the pre-prison writings, namely journalistic articles and other political interventions; this was integrated by a Cambridge University Press volume published in 1994. The 1970s saw partial translations of the Prison Letters, and a full version in 1994. In the meantime a volume Selections from Cultural Writings appeared in the mid-80s and Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks in 1995, preceded somewhat earlier by the first volume of Buttigieg’s own integral translation of Valentino Gerratana’s 1975 critical edition of the Notebooks, now interrupted as work was proceeding beyond Volume 3. A recent addition in volume form is A Great and Terrible World. The Pre-Prison Letters; the title’s opening phrase is taken from Kipling, and was often used by Gramsci and his wife, Julija (Jul’ka), in the letters they exchanged before Gramsci’s arrest.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1120/viewcontent/8_Gramsci_in_English_Buttigieg_at_Perugia.pdf
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Gramsci in English translations
Prison Notebooks
Prison letters
Pre-prison letters
anthologies
integral translation of Notebooks.
Gramsci
prison writing in English
pre-prison writings in English
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2019-04-28T14:23:59Z
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Gramsci war ein Schibboleth
Baier, Walter
Antonio Gramsci setzte sich Zeit seines Lebens wenig mit den politischen Vorgängen Österreichs auseinander. Seine posthum veröffentlichten Schriften hatten zudem einen vergleichsweise geringen Einfluss auf die politische Landschaft Österreichs links der Mitte. Dessen ungeachtet nimmt das folgende Interview mit dem ehemaligen KPÖ-Vorsitzenden Walter Baier einige Berührungspunkte und Bezugnahmen zwischen Gramsci und der österreichischen Linken im Verlauf des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in den Blick. Diese Berührungspunkte umfassen 1) Gramscis Aufenthalt in Wien 1923-1924 sowie sein kritisches Verhältnis zum Austromarxismus in philosophischer und politischer Hinsicht; 2) den peripheren Einfluss von Gramscis Denken auf den vorgezogenen Eurokommunismus in der KPÖ zwischen 1965 und 1969, der vor allem dem Wirken von Franz Marek geschuldet ist; 3) die Anfang der 1980er Jahre erfolgte marxistisch-leninistische Gramsci-Rezeption seitens der KPÖ-Führung, die als Abwehrversuch gegenüber heterodoxen Marxismus-Interpretationen innerhalb und außerhalb der eigenen Partei intendiert war; 4) sowie die mögliche Bedeutung Gramscis für einen integralen Sozialismus im Sinne Otto Bauers, verstanden als revolutionär-transformatisches Projekt für das beginnende einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1121/viewcontent/9_Gramsci_war_ein_Schibboleth.pdf
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Bauer
Gramsci
Austromarxismus
integrale sozialismus
KPÖ
Gramsci und Austria
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2019-04-28T14:28:33Z
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La complessa convergenza: potenzialità e problematicità di un confronto tra Gramsci e Foucault [recensione del volume “Gramsci and Foucault: a Reassessment”, a cura di David Kreps]
Tarascio, Giacomo
Questo articolo è la recensione da Giacomo Tarascio del volume Gramsci and Foucault: a Reassessment, a cura di David Kreps.
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/gramsci/vol3/iss1/12
https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1124/viewcontent/12_Gramsci_Foucault_versione_italiana.pdf
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Gramsci
Foucault
confronto
convergenza
individui
istituzioni.
Gramsci e Foucault
oai:ro.uow.edu.au:gramsci-1125
2019-04-28T14:30:00Z
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The Complex Convergence: Gramsci and Foucault
Tarascio, Giacomo
This is a review by Giacomo Tarascio of Gramsci and Foucault: a Reassessment, edited by David Kreps
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/context/gramsci/article/1125/viewcontent/13_Kreps_Gramsci_and_Foucault_GTarascio_versione_inglese.pdf
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Gramsci
Foucault
reassessment
comparison of positions
individuals
institutions.
Gramsci and Foucault
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