Antonio Gramsci /
Jones, Steve.
Antonio Gramsci / Steve Jones. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2006. - x, 154 p. ; 21 cm. - Routledge critical thinkers. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-147) and index.
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Key Ideas
1 Gramsci’s Political and Intellectual Development
Risorgimento and Trasformismo
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
Theorist of the Superstructures
National-Popular and the ‘Southern Question’
Questioning the ‘National-Popular’
3 Hegemony
The Roots of Hegemony
Lenin
Jacobinism
Hegemony: Overview
Coercion and Consent
Machiavelli
Limited and Expansive Hegemony
Common Sense and Good Sense
Summary
4 Hegemony in Practice 1: Identity
Being ‘Excellent’
Youth Subcultures
5 Hegemony in Practice 2: Representations and Institutions
Narratives of Authority
Negotiation and Resistance
Institutional Hegemony
Summary
6 Intellectuals
The ‘Problem of the Intellectuals’
Organic Intellectuals
Traditional Intellectuals
Intellectuals, Popular Culture and Common Sense
Summary
7 Crisis
Organic Crisis
Passive Revolution
Caesarism
Bonapartism
Policing the Crisis
Representing the Crisis
Summary
8 Americanism and Fordism
Parasites and Passive Sedimentations
Workers, Morality and Pleasure
Americanization and Culture
Gramsci on Jazz
Summary
After Gramsci?
Introduction
Historicism
Cultural Studies and the ‘Turn to Gramsci’
New Times, New Social Movements
Further Reading
Works by Antonio Gramsci in English
Biographies
Introductory Studies of Gramsci
More Advanced and Specialist Studies
Internet Resources
Works Cited
For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work. Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here include: * culture * hegemony * intellectuals * crisis * Americanization. Gramsci's work invites people to think beyond simplistic oppositions by recasting ideological domination as hegemony: the ability of a ruling power's values to live in the minds and lives of its subalterns as a spontaneous expression of their own interests Is power simply a matter of domination and resistance? Can a ruling power be vulnerable? Can subordinates find their resitance neutralized? and What is the role of culture in this? These questions, and many more are tackled here in this invaluable introduction to Gramsci.
041531948X 0415319471 9780415319478 9780415319485 9781032296869 9780203625521
Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.
Communists--Italy--Biography.
320.12 / JON
Antonio Gramsci / Steve Jones. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2006. - x, 154 p. ; 21 cm. - Routledge critical thinkers. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-147) and index.
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Key Ideas
1 Gramsci’s Political and Intellectual Development
Risorgimento and Trasformismo
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
Theorist of the Superstructures
National-Popular and the ‘Southern Question’
Questioning the ‘National-Popular’
3 Hegemony
The Roots of Hegemony
Lenin
Jacobinism
Hegemony: Overview
Coercion and Consent
Machiavelli
Limited and Expansive Hegemony
Common Sense and Good Sense
Summary
4 Hegemony in Practice 1: Identity
Being ‘Excellent’
Youth Subcultures
5 Hegemony in Practice 2: Representations and Institutions
Narratives of Authority
Negotiation and Resistance
Institutional Hegemony
Summary
6 Intellectuals
The ‘Problem of the Intellectuals’
Organic Intellectuals
Traditional Intellectuals
Intellectuals, Popular Culture and Common Sense
Summary
7 Crisis
Organic Crisis
Passive Revolution
Caesarism
Bonapartism
Policing the Crisis
Representing the Crisis
Summary
8 Americanism and Fordism
Parasites and Passive Sedimentations
Workers, Morality and Pleasure
Americanization and Culture
Gramsci on Jazz
Summary
After Gramsci?
Introduction
Historicism
Cultural Studies and the ‘Turn to Gramsci’
New Times, New Social Movements
Further Reading
Works by Antonio Gramsci in English
Biographies
Introductory Studies of Gramsci
More Advanced and Specialist Studies
Internet Resources
Works Cited
For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work. Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here include: * culture * hegemony * intellectuals * crisis * Americanization. Gramsci's work invites people to think beyond simplistic oppositions by recasting ideological domination as hegemony: the ability of a ruling power's values to live in the minds and lives of its subalterns as a spontaneous expression of their own interests Is power simply a matter of domination and resistance? Can a ruling power be vulnerable? Can subordinates find their resitance neutralized? and What is the role of culture in this? These questions, and many more are tackled here in this invaluable introduction to Gramsci.
041531948X 0415319471 9780415319478 9780415319485 9781032296869 9780203625521
Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.
Communists--Italy--Biography.
320.12 / JON