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: Peter D. Thomas EDITOR(S) The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, ISBN : 978-93-5002-212-2 Hegemony and Marxism PUBLISHER YEAR PRICE TERRITORY SUBJECT : : : : : : SIZE Demy octavo Aakar Books 2013 Rs. 495.00 World Philosophy, Marxism

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Antonio Gramscis Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has been subjected, resulting in often contradictory images of Gramsci. This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramscis thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramscis theory of the state and concept of philosophy, The Gramscian moment argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of developing a philosophy of praxis as a vital element in the contemporary revitalization of Marxism. Peter D. Thomas, studied at the University of Queensland, Freie Universitat Berlin, LUniversita Federico II, Naples, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on Marxist political theory and philosophy. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: research in critical Marxist theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Note on the Text Acknowledgements

Preface Chapter One: The Moment of Reading Capital 1.1. I can only think of Gramsci 1.2. Reading Capital in its moment 1.3. The last great theoretical debate of Marxism 1.3.1. Althusserianism 1.3.2. Gramscianism 1.4. Marxist philosophy 1.4.1. A new philosophy of praxis 1.4.2. A new practice of philosophy 1.4.3. Marxism and philosophy 1.5. The Althusserian and Gramscian moments 1.5.1. Gramscis organic concepts 1.5.2. An enduring encounter 1.5.3. Marxist philosophy today 1.6. Philosophy, hegemony and the state: metaphysical event and philosophical fact

Chapter Two: Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci? 2.1. Incompletion and reconstruction 2.2. A theoretical toolbox? 2.3. Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci 2.4. 1+1=3 2.5. Detours via detours 2.6. The emergence of hegemony 2.7. and its deformation 2.8. Three versions of hegemony in the West 2.9. Political society + civil society = state 2.10. Shadows of Croce 2.11. Easy and West, past and present 2.12. Antinomies of the united front 2.13. The spectre of Kautsky 2.14. A labyrinth within a labyrinth?

Chapter Three: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma? On the Literary Form of the Prison Notebooks 3.1. Traces of the past 3.1.1. An arbitrary and mechanical hypostatization of the moment of hegemony 3.1.2. A strategy of detours 3.1.3. State, integral state, political society 3.1.4. Base and superstructure, superstructures and ideologies 3.2. Code language 3.2.1. A helmet of Hades? 3.2.2. From m to the philosophy of praxis 3.3. Hieroglyphs 3.3.1. Fur ewig 3.3.2. Three phases of work 3.3.2.1. First phase 3.3.2.2. Second phase

3.3.2.3. Third phase 3.4. Incompletion: a work in progress 3.4.1. Fragmentary philology 3.4.2. An anti-philosophical novel 3.5. An unfinished dialogue 3.5.1. The education of the educator 3.5.2. Necessary incompletion 3.6. An Ariadnes thread 3.6.1. Preliminary philology 3.6.2. Differential temporalities 3.6.3. A Modern classic Chapter Four: Contra the Passive Revolution 4.1. The integral state 4.2. The long nineteenth century 4.3. The birth of civil society 4.4. Passive revolution 4.5. War of position 4.6. War of position versus war of movement 4.7. Two phases of passive revolution 4.8. Duration versus historical epoch 4.9. Crisis of authority 4.10. Modernity as passive revolution? Chapter Five: Civil and Political Hegemony 5.1. Consent versus coercion 5.1.1. Political leadership becomes an aspect of domination 5.1.2. The dual perspective 5.2. Civil society versus the state 5.2.1. Superstructural levels 5.2.2. The concept of civil society as used in these notes 5.2.3. The state as the truth of civil society 5.2.4. The particularity of the integral state 5.2.5. Civil society as the secret of the state 5.2.6. Political society sive the state? 5.2.7. Attributes of the integral state 5.2.8. The location of hegemony Chapter Six: The Realisation of Hegemony 6.1. West versus East 6.1.1. Predominance as weakness 6.1.2. The underdeveloped West 6.1.3. The absent centre of the West 6.1.4. Antinomies of East and West 6.1.5. The international capitalist state-form 6.1.6. Differential temporalities of the state 6.2. Hegemony, bourgeois and proletarian 6.2.1. A generic theory of social power? 6.2.2. The hegemonic apparatus: political power as immanent to class power 6.2.3. Which Lenin? 6.2.4. The realisation of hegemony

6.2.5. The NEP 6.2.6. Gramscis NEP 6.2.7. NEP united front civil and political hegemony 6.3. Actually of the united front Chapter Seven: The Philosophy of Praxis is the Absolute Historicism 7.1. The absolute historicism 7.1.1. Theory of history and historiography 7.1.2. The popular aspect of modern historicism 7.2. Two critiques: liquidation and dilution 7.2.1. Gramsci contra Bukharinand Diamat 7.2.2. An Anti-Croce 7.2.3. Post-Marxism avant la letter 7.2.4. History of freedom 7.2.5. Reform or destruction of the dialectic? 7.2.6. Croces absolute historicism 7.2.7. Gramscis absolute historicism: a first approach 7.2.8. Speculation 7.2.9. Speculative philosophy as a moment of hegemony 7.3. Ideology sive philosophy 7.3.1. The non-contemporaneity of the present 7.3.2. The impossibility of an essential section 7.3.3. Philosophy sive history sive politics 7.3.4. The philosophy of praxis as the catharsis of a determinate practical life 7.4. Towards a philosophy of praxis 7.4.1. The philosophy of praxis is the absolute historicism 7.4.2. Historical materialism 7.4.3. The so-called objectivity of the external world Chapter Eight: The Absolute Secularisation and Earthliness of Thought 8.1. Althusserian science 8.1.2. Spectres of Bukharin 8.1.3. The kernel of the philosophy of praxis 8.1.4. Under the shadow of Croce 8.1.5. Also science is a superstructure 8.2. Traces of immanence 8.2.1. The Diesseitigkeit of absolute immanence: theory 8.3. Gramsci: linguist 8.3.1. History, metaphor, hegemony 8.3.2. Aufhebung as inheritance: supersession and assumption 8.3.3. Nominalism versus philology 8.3.4. A completely autonomous and independent structure of thought 8.3.5. The subterranean current of philosophies of immanence 8.4. Why immanence? 8.4.1.Absolute immanence 8.4.2. The transcendence of philosophies of immanence 8.5. Gramsci: economist 8.5.1. Speculative immanence and historical and realistic immanence 8.5.2. Determinate market 8.5.3. The tendential laws of the determinate market: the philology of relations Of force 8.5.4. Three sources of Marxism or historical process still in movement?

Immanence as the unitary synthetic moment of the philosophy of praxis 8.6. Immanence = theory 8.6.1. Rendering practice more coherent 8.6.2. The merely formal difference of coherence 8.6.3. Logical coherence 8.6.4. Coherence and the capacity to act 8.6.5. Una persona coerente 8.6.6. The incoherence of senso comune 8.6.7. Platonic anti-Platonism 8.7. The identity of theory and practice Chapter Nine: An Absolute Humanism of History 9.1. The humanist controversy 9.1.1. A return of the subject? 9.1.2. The union of humanism and historicism 9.1.3. An ensemble of historically determined social relations 9.1.4. Subject of persona? 9.1.5. The Gramscian person 9.2. Humanism, hegemony and intellectuals 9.2.1. Marxism and the intellectuals 9.2.2. A sociology of the Italian intellectuals 9.2.3. Intellectuals and the integral state 9.2.4. Function of intellectuals 9.3. Organic and traditional intellectuals 9.3.1. A power mechanism for conforming new forces 9.4. Renaissance humanism 9.4.1. Renaissance versus Reformation 9.4.2. Neo-humanism 9.5. Philosophos sive politicus 9.5.1. The democratic philosopher 9.5.2. The democratic philosopher and senso comune 9.5.3. The democratic philosopher as Aeolian harp 9.5.4. The democratic philosopher as collectivity 9.6. The modern Prince and apparatus of proletarian hegemony as philosophical fact Conclusion: Marxism and Philosophy: Today References Name Index Subject Index

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