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Author Filippini, Michele, author.

Title Using Gramsci : a new approach / Michele Filippini ; translated by Patrick J. Barr
Published London : Pluto Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 174 pages)
Series Reading Gramsci
Reading Gramsci.
Contents 1. Ideology -- The problem of ideology -- The historicity of the concept of ideology -- The complexity of ideology -- The truth/falsity of ideology -- The conceptual constellation of ideology including hegemony -- 2. The individual -- The structure of the individual -- The social production of the individual: Gramsci and Durkheim -- ̀Man is a social worker': Gramsci and Sorel -- The theory of personality and molecular transformations -- 3. Collective organisms -- Collective organisms between civil society and the State -- Bureaucracy and officials: Gramsci and Weber -- The political party and the political class -- Organic centralism and living philology -- Machiavelli and the modern Prince -- 4. Society -- The organicity of society -- Organic intellectuals and mass intellectuality -- How society works -- Gramsci's ̀sociological operators' -- 5. The crisis -- A new understanding of the crisis -- The multiple meanings of ̀crisis' -- The political science of crisis -- Crisis and organization -- 6. Temporality -- The dual character of Gramscian time -- Signs of time: the theory of personality, common sense, language, East and West -- The shape of duration: the passive revolution -- The form of epoch: how novelty emerges
Summary This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. Here, Michele Filippini proposes a new approach based on the analysis of previously ignored concepts in his works, creating a book which stands apart. Including chapters on ideology, the individual, collective organisms, society, crisis and temporality, Using Gramsci offers a new pattern in Gramscian studies aimed to speak to the broader audience of social sciences scholars beyond the field of political theory and Marxism, while remaining firmly rooted in his writings. Working from the original Italian texts, Filippini also examines the more traditional areas of Gramsci's thought, including hegemony, organic intellectuals and civil society. This book will be perfect for all scholars and students of Gramsci's thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-169) and index
Notes Translated from the Italian
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Subject Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937
SUBJECT Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937 fast
Gramsci, Antonio 1891-1937 gnd
Subject Communism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science and theory.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Communism
Political science -- Philosophy
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786800077
1786800071
9781786800091
1786800098
9781786800084
178680008X
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