Routledge Library Editions: Gramsci, 4-Volume Set

In the years since the publication of the 'Prison Notebooks', the interest and importance of Antonio Gramsci's contribution to Marxist thought and political analysis has become widely recognised. The concern to explore and identify the structures of the capitalist state is both the principal characteristic of Gramsci's theoretical and political writings and also the inspiration for his writings on Italian history. This set re-issues four volumes by leading commentators on Gramsci's politics and philosophy which were originally published between 1979 and 1981 Cover Volume1 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyrigtht Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents 1: Introduction: Antonio Gramsci and Italy’s Passive Revolution 2: Gramsci and The Era of The Bourgeois Revolution in Italy 3: The South, The Risorgimento and The Origins of The ‘Southern Problem’ 4: Landlords, Peasants and The Limits of Liberalism 5: From Sharecropper to Proletarian: The Background to Fascism in Rural Tuscany,1880-1920 6: Agrarians and Industrialists: The Evolution of an Alliance in The Po Delta,1896-1914 7: From Liberalism to Corporatism: The Province of Brescia During The First World War 8: Fascist Agrarian Policy and the Italian Economy in the Inter-War Years Notes on Contributors Index Volume2 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword to the Reissued Edition Part One: Marx’s Theory of Praxis 1: A Starting Point 2: Praxis and Practice in Hegel and Marx Part Two: Georg Lukács: Theoretician of Praxis 3: Lukács in Context 4: Subject and Object in Bourgeois Philosophy 5: From Lukács to Hegel and Back 6: Towards Conscious Mediations 7: Sociology and Mythology in Lukács Part Three: Antonio Gramsci: Practical Theoretician 8: Gramsci in Context 9: Hegemony and Civil Society 10: Analysing The Historical Bloc Excursus: Myths and the Masses 11: Towards the Ethical State 12: The Unity of Common Sense and Philosophy 13: Inequality and The Unity of Mankind Part Four: Early Critical Theory: The Sociology of Praxis 14: Horkheimer in Context 15: Praxis and Method 16: Sociological Facts and Mass Praxis Excursus: Historical Invariants 17: Philosophical Sociology and Sociological Philosophy 18: Conclusion: The Cunning of Praxis Notes Bibliography Index Volume3 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Gramsci Today Part I: Structure, Superstructure and Civil Society 1: Gramsci and The Conception of Civil Society 2: Gramsci, Theoretician of the Superstructures 3: Gramsci and the Problem of the Revolution Part II: Hegemony, Philosophy and Ideology 4: Gramsci’s General Theory of Marxism 5: Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci Part III: State, Politics and Revolutionary Strategy 6: State, Transition and Passive Revolution 7: Gramsci and the PCI: Two Conceptions of Hegemony 8: Lenin and Gramsci: State, Politics and Party Volume4 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Philosophy of Praxis and Gramsci’s Sociology 1: Marxism as an Autonomous and Independent Weltanschauung 2: The Specificity of Marxist Sociology in Gramsci’s Theory Part II: The Sociology of Political Praxis 3: The Masses and the Dynamics of History 4: The Intellectuals and the Dynamics of Historical Blocs 5: Hegemony in Marxist Theory and Praxis Part III: Political Praxis and the Superstructures 6: Science, Political Praxis and Historicism 7: Language, Political Praxis and Historicism 8: Aesthetics, Political Praxis and Historicism Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Antonio Gramsci used the term 'passive revolution' to describe the limitations and weaknesses of the 19th century bourgeois state in Italy which permitted economic development whilst thwarting social and political progress. This detailed study consists of seven essays each exploring a different theme of the economic and social basis of the Liberal state, providing a broad understanding of the background against the emergence of Italian fascism and present a number of debates and controversies amongst Italian historians. By critical discussion of Gramsci's reading of modern Italian history, the essays present an analysis of the structure and development of social and economic relations in the formation of the Liberal state, illustrating the transition from liberalism to fascism. This sociological critique of the ' philosophy of praxis' looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Luk cs, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel, and explores the validity and implications for sociology of two of Marx' s ideas which the later theorists made the centre piece of their social theory: first, that true theory is authenticated by praxis, and second, its corollary ..