Authors:Derek Boothman Abstract: This is the Abstract of the Notes on Contributors to Issue 15 of the International Gramsci Journal. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:55 PST
Authors:Alessio Panichi Abstract: This is the Abstract of the double review in English by Alessio Panichi of the volumes In cammino con Gramsci (‘On the Road with Gramsci’) by Giuseppe Vacca (Roma, Viella, 2020) and La fabbrica dei Quaderni. Studi su Gramsci (‘The Workshop of the Notebooks. Studies on Gramsci’) by Michele Ciliberto (Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020). The former analyses Gramsci’s elaboration of the philosophy of praxis, and the latter looks how Gramsci’s reading of the national history and cultural tradition of Italy informed the concepts developed in the Prison Notebooks. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:51 PST
Authors:Alessio Panichi Abstract: This is the Abstract of the double review in Italian by Alessio Panichi of the volumes In cammino con Gramsci by Giuseppe Vacca (Roma, Viella, 2020) and La fabbrica dei Quaderni. Studi su Gramsci by Michele Ciliberto (Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020). The former analyses Gramsci’s elaboration of the philosophy of praxis and the latter looks how Gramsci’s reading of the national history and cultural tradition of Italy informed the concepts developed in the Prison Notebooks. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:48 PST
Authors:Miguel Mellino Abstract: This is the Abstract of the English-language version of the review by Miguel Mellino of the volume Gramsci e il populismo (ed. Guido Liguori), Milano, Unicopli, 2019, containing the proceedings of the 2018 International Gramsci Seminar on Gramsci and populism. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:44 PST
Authors:Miguel Mellino Abstract: This is the Abstract of the review in Italian by Miguel Mellino of the volume Gramsci e il populismo (ed. Guido Liguori), Milano, Unicopli, 2019, containing the proceedings of the 2018 International Gramsci Seminar on Gramsci and populism. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:41 PST
Authors:Rhina Roux Abstract: This is the Abstract of the review / book presentation by Rhina Roux of the volume Gramsci en México, edited by Diana Fuentes and Massimo Modonesi, México, UNAM. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:38 PST
Authors:Carlos Nelson Coutinho Abstract: This is a translation into English of the Dizionario gramsciano entry ‘Collective Will” by Carlos Nelson Coutinho. The concept of and need for the creation of a collective will, sometimes qualified as ‘national-popular collective will’, finds its most extensive development in a second draft text of Notebook 14. As such it is determining in the formation of social reality and, indeed, of democracy in Gramsci’s sense of rule by the people. The emphasis placed on a collective will, ‘attained through concrete individual effort’, forms part of Gramsci’s critique of the ‘positivist and naturalist encrustations’ of the determinist forms of Marxism, both of the Second International and those expressed notably at the time by Bukharin in the Soviet Union and is a factor in Gramsci’s formulation of his ‘philosophy of praxis’. The expression of this collective will is intimately linked to another Gramscian concept, that of the ‘modern Prince’ which becomes the ‘protagonist of a real and effective historical drama’, the aim in which is to reach concrete and rational goals: expressed otherwise it plays a key role in the struggle to create a new hegemony, an ‘intellectual and moral reform’, and a genuine democracy, one of whose expressions is the ‘legislator’, understood as a person expressing a ‘specific collective will’ and attempting through that ‘to modify reality according to certain directive lines’. In conclusion the formation of such a collective will is essential in overcoming the direction-spontaneity (elsewhere ‘leaders-led’) dichotomy. (Note: Abstract written by the editors). PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:34 PST
Authors:A. Michael Baines Abstract: This article links the buildings housing the International Criminal Court to the workings of that court by putting the Gramscian concept of hegemony to work. It considers occulted functions of the structure and subconscious aspects of the operations of the court. Gramsci’s hegemony is an articulation of a relationship of power between dominant and dominated classes. This relationship is not only one between consenting States and the court, but also between non-ratifying States and the court. It is also the locus of a power struggle between an elite judicial class and the sovereign ratifying States. The physical structure in which this international law is adjudicated and this struggle for power takes place, answers those criteria of hegemony as this article will demonstrate. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:31 PST
Authors:Piermarco Piu Abstract: The article focuses of the activity of Gramsci, the Ordine Nuovo group and the communist vanguard in the Turin Factory Council movement throughout the ‘Red Biennium’ (1919-1920) and during the occupation of the Italian factories (September 1920). This movement questioned the owners’ power in the factory, with the occupation in Turin characterized by the workers collectively managing the plants without the owners. From this perspective, the Turin Factory Council movement and the local occupation represented one of the most advanced political and organizational developments of the Italian working class in the twentieth century. By applying ‘the molecular’ in directions that Gramsci would have found interesting, this article addresses how ideas and images of the Factory Councils circulated ‘mole-cularly’ within the Turin working class movement. This helps understand how the circulation affected the ‘spontaneous’ establishment of a ‘productive network’ of Councils during the Turin occupation. The ‘molecular’ focus shows that the Turin movement raised - without solving – one question of democratic relevance: how to overcome the division between leaders and led. By discussing this issue from a historiographical perspective, this article intervenes in the debates about September 1920 and the Red Biennium, asking to what extent the ideological work of Gramsci and the Ordine Nuovo group throughout 1919-1920 directed the spontaneous practices of the Turin workers during the occupation. Moreover, it sheds light on the emancipatory politics of 1919-1920, questioning whether the leaders-led distance was overcome in the production and circulation of conciliar ideas and images. Secondly, from a theoretical perspective, the molecular approach and the question of democracy are used to explore the theoretical and political lexicon of the Prison Note-books – particularly hegemony and the direction of spontaneity. The article discusses the molecular functioning of these two issues, arguing that an emancipatory hegemony cannot rely solely on the direction of spontaneity to address the leaders-led division. As such, the intellectuals and subalterns’ coproduction of theoretical perspectives emerges as one of the political and practical challenges for an emancipatory hegemony, particularly during the Red Biennium. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:27 PST
Authors:Caio Gontijo Abstract: En este texto, tratamos de partir de la discusión sobre autoconciencia en Hegel para llegar al concepto de sentido común en Gramsci. Para ello, en un primer apartado, denominado Auto-conciencia, analizamos gran parte del Capítulo IV de la Fenomenología del espíritu junto a otros autores que comentaron o interpretaron esta misma discusión. En el segundo apartado, denominado Sentido común, lo comentamos desde los Cuadernos de la cárcel de Gramsci, y también proponemos una discusión sobre sus negaciones y algunas de sus implicaciones, como la dimensión de lo ridículo corrosivo. Argumentamos que el sentido común mezcla diversos elementos contrastantes en una proporción variable. Es, en una totalidad social, la autoconciencia momentáneamente imperante. Cuando la voluntad de superarlo se traduce en acción política con la intuición militante de que es suficiente criticarlo, uno se aleja del sentido común, se convierte en un ‘otro’. Esto se debe a que en la búsqueda de un criterio para la crítica del sentido común se recurre intuitivamente al sentido común mismo. Pero, concretamente, se recurre a un lugar particular dentro de él, inhóspito. Lo que ‘no’ es el sentido común, lo que se presenta como su inmediata negación, está marcado por él con el signo negativo de lo ridículo corrosivo. Así, a través de la corrosión de su desviación, el sentido común mantiene su unidad consigo mismo. En conclusión, proponemos una breve síntesis para explicitar a los argumentos que ya se han desarrollado a lo largo del texto y hacemos algunas consideraciones sobre la disputa por los consensos sociales en la actualidad. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:24 PST
Authors:Massimo Modonesi Abstract: Es necesario recuperar y reconfigurar una teoría marxista de la acción política, fundamentada en una conceptualización de la subjetivación política que gire en torno al principio del antagonismo y que se desarrolle en una teorización sobre los movimientos sociopolíticos. En aras de contribuir a la ampliación y renovación de este horizonte, propuse analizar los procesos de subjetivación política como secuencias de combinaciones desiguales de experiencias y prácticas de subalternidad, antagonismo y autonomía, entendidas como correlatos subjetivos de la clásica tripartición marxista analítica entre dominación, conflicto y emancipación (bibliografía: Modonesi, 2010). En este artículo continúo en esta dirección a través de dos movimientos teóricos simultáneos. En el primero, introduzco la coordenada gramsciana de hegemonía dentro de la lógica y secuencia de subjetivación política. En la segunda, argumento que la obra de Gramsci contiene los fundamentos, es decir, las coordenadas básicas, a partir de las cuales podemos y debemos contrastar las teorizaciones marxistas sobre los procesos de subjetivación política y, por tanto, de acción colectiva y de movimientos sociales. PubDate: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:51:21 PST
Authors:Derek Boothman Abstract: This is the abstract in English of the Notes on contributors / note sugli autori for the International Gramsci Journal 4(2), no. 14, 2021 PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:53 PDT
Authors:Derek Boothman Abstract: This is the abstract of a review by Derek Boothman of the new edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Lettere dal carcere, (Torino, Einaudi 2020). PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:49 PDT
Authors:Gianni Fresu Abstract: This is the abstract of a review in English by Gianni Fresu of the book by Giacomo Tarascio, Nazione e mezzogiorno. (Roma, Ediesse 2016). PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:46 PDT
Authors:Gianni Fresu Abstract: This is the abstract of a review in Italian by Gianni Fresu of the book by Giacomo Tarascio, Nazione e mezzogiorno. (Roma, Ediesse 2016). PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:42 PDT
Authors:Roberto Dainotto Abstract: This is the abstract of a review by Roberto Dainotto of the book by Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci. Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity (Leiden and Boston, Brill 2020). PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:38 PDT
Authors:Robert P. Jackson Abstract: This is the abstract of a review in English by Robert P. Jackson of the book by Kate Crehan, Gramsci’s Common Sense. Inequality and its Narratives (Durham, Duke University Press 2016). PubDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:38:35 PDT
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