An in-depth study of Antonio Gramsci s prison notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) and his specific contributions to radical democratic theory. The book encompasses English, Italian, and French debates on the subject as well as political and philosophical discussions concerning the limitations of liberal and socialist democratic theory.
An in-depth study of Antonio Gramsci s prison notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) and his specific contributions to radical democratic theory.
Foreword vii Ernesto Laclau Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Setting the Problem 3(16) Clarifying the `limits to liberalism 4(5) The second impasse 9(4) The Hegelian interpretation and attempted resolution of the impasse 13(6) Gramscis Epistemological Eclecticism: What He Borrows from Vico and Croce, and Why 19(22) Against `external realities or dualisms of any kind 21(2) The contributions of Vico: Science as knowledge as history 23(1) Why Croce 24(17) Science, Immanence, and the `Real Dialectic: A Question of the Political 41(27) The `political moment 43(5) The Problem (and importance) of science 48(7) Rational and real in the `real dialectic 55(13) The Understated Importance of the Concept of the Will 68(20) Will as the basis of a philosophy of praxis 71(5) `Ethico-political as an expression of collective will 76(8) The dilemma of a `totalized social immanent in its expression 84(4) Investigating the Base/Superstructure Dilemma and What Gramsci Does to Change It 88(35) The `base versus the `structure dilemma 90(4) The `economic as `structure (or the so-called problem of `quantity) 94(8) Into the structure and what Gramsci finds there 102(4) From hegemony in the structure to the ethico-political state 106(17) Gramscis Contribution to a Post-Liberal-Democratic Theory: Concluding Remarks 123(16) Gramscis contribution 123(9) The continuing search 132(7) Notes 139(50) Bibliography 189(22) Index 211
Sue Golding is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Essex University, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
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