Gramsci's Historicism (Routledge Revivals): A Realist Interpretation

by Esteve Morera

First published in 1990, this book is a comprehensive study of Gramsci's Quaderni, and gives the reader a penetrating account of the structure of Gramsci's thought. The author draw on many materials and sources, making accesible to the English-speaking reader a wide range of texts otherwise only available in Italian, French, Spanish, and Catalan. His book sheds light on Gramsci's basic philosophical and methodological principles, and will be useful as an introduction to Gramsci for students of political science, sociology, social science, history, and philosophy, as well as to scholars in the field.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2010

Reviews

[J. Moufawad-Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant secondary work on Gramsci by a scholar who laid the ground work, in this book, for much of the contemporary scholarship on Gramsci. Even though it was originally written in 1991 it still a timely intervention, useful for clearing away all the terrible "post-Marxist" interpretations of Gramsci that, as Morera decisively argues, demonstrate a general ignorance of Gramsci's ouvre. Placing Gramsci back in the terrain of Marxism-Leninism, and showing with painstaking textual analysis that it would be an error to read him as anything else than a creative Leninist thinker, Morera makes it quite difficult for anyone to claim that Gramsci was a "voluntarist", that his concept of hegemony was completely heterodox to the Leninist terrain, and calls into question any attempts to use Gramsci to back Derridian style approaches to social reality. Required reading for so-called Gramscians who think they understand Gramsci better than those using him in line with ML style critique, an antidote to slipshod appropriations of Gramsci's concepts.

[Santiago Sousa · Rating 4 out of 5]

gostei bastante!

o livro realiza um percurso extremamente necessário, que coloca em diálogo os conceitos desenvolvidos por antonio gramsci com as problemáticas do campo da teoria da história.
esse enquadramento enriquece muito a obra do gramsci e o afasta de interpretações mecânicas frequentes.