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Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks
Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsci’s texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsci’s thought to generate and nurture innovative inquiries across diverse themes.
Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world.
Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.
Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world.
Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.
544 pages, ebook
Published November 26, 2019
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February 6, 2026
Hit or miss dependent upon the essay like most collections. Highlights are Thomas's critique of the Subaltern Studies trend's misunderstanding of the subaltern, Conelli's analysis of Gramscian space vs. Lukacsian temporality, Vandeviver's analysis of Said's oft-ignored Gramscian dimensions, and Crezegut and Neubauer's invaluable chapters on the Althusser-Gramsci topic. Crezegut contextualizes Althusser's critique of Gramsci within his struggle against the revisionist Garaudy within the PCF and Sartre outside of it, as well as the directions his increasingly radical Maoist students were pushing him. Neubauer analyzes the engagement of Gramsci and Althusser with Machiavelli and unearths untranslated archival sources further deepening Thomas's sympathetic view towards Althusser outlined in The Gramscian Moment. Missing is much engagement at all with Anderson's views on Gramsci, but they are so thoroughly demolished by Thomas's earlier work that perhaps it is unnecessary.
October 15, 2024
Inevitably with an edited collection like this, coming out of a conference, there is an unevenness to the contributions.
But when the heavy hitters of rising Gramscians are swinging to their strengths, they swing. Antonini, Fusaro, Thomas, and Loftus stood out as best.
Maybe we’ll see a full English translation of the Notebooks, or I’ll recommit to learning Italian, to see how much of this actually tracks.
But when the heavy hitters of rising Gramscians are swinging to their strengths, they swing. Antonini, Fusaro, Thomas, and Loftus stood out as best.
Maybe we’ll see a full English translation of the Notebooks, or I’ll recommit to learning Italian, to see how much of this actually tracks.
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