Antonio Gramsci Book

WHY GRAMSCI?

Talking Common Sense
Gramsci's nuanced account of power
Case Study: St. George's day

KEY IDEAS

1: Gramsci's Political and Intellectual Development

Risorgimento and Trasformiso
Early Life
'Years of Iron and fire': Gramsci in Turin
War, Fascism and Communism
From Moscow to Prison

2: Culture

Base and Superstructure
Wars of Manoeuvre and Position
Civil Society
Theorists of the Superstructures
National - popular and the 'Southern Question'
Questioning the 'National-Popular'

3: Hegemony 1

The Roots of Hegemony
Hegemony: Overview
Coercion and consent
Limited and expansive hegemony
Common Sense and Good Sense

4: Hegemony in practice 1: identity

Being 'Excellent'
Youth Subcultures

5: Hegemony in Action 2: representations and institutions

Narratives of authority
Negotiation and Resistance
Institutional Hegemony

6: Intellectuals

The 'Problem of the Intellectuals'
Organic Intellectuals
Traditional Intellectuals
Intellectuals, Popular Culture and Common Sense

7: Crisis

Organic Crisis
Passive Revolution
Caesarism
Policing the Crisis
Representing the Crisis

8: Americanism and Fordism

Parasites and passive sedimentations
Workers, morality and pleasure
Americanization and Culture

AFTER GRAMSCI
After Gramsci
Historicismm
Cultural studies and the 'Turn to Gramsci'
New Times, New Social Movements

FURTHER READING