1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910488722003321

Autore

Dal Maso Juan

Titolo

Hegemony and Class Struggle : Trotsky, Gramsci and Marxism / / by Juan Dal Maso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030756888

3030756882

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

327.101

335.433

Soggetti

Political science

World politics

Political sociology

Political Theory

Political History

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Hegemony in Trotsky's Though: From Hegemonic Power to Theory of Revolution -- 2. Hegemony in Trotsky's Thought: The Problem of Hegemony in the Transition -- 3. Trotsky in the Prison Notebooks -- 4. Once Again on Trotsky and Gramsci. .

Sommario/riassunto

Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci are two of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century. This book explores the similarities and the differences between their philosophical and political theories. The first and second chapters deal with a still under-investigated aspect of Trotsky's thought, i.e. his reflections on the issue of hegemony. The third chapter focuses on Gramsci's critique of Trotsky in his Prison Notebooks, analysing Gramsci's knowledge of Trotsky's positions as well as the scope and limits of Gramsci's critique. The fourth chapter consists of a critical rereading of Perry Anderson's essay Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, originally published in 1976 and republished in 2017 and an analysis of the book Gramsci and Trotsky



in the Shadow of Stalinism by Emanuele Saccarelli. The result is an investigation that offers new insight into both Trotsky's and Gramsci's thought, while proposing a new point of view from which to interpret revolutionary theory and strategy in the contemporary scenario. One of the main topics addressed throughout the book is the specific position of the problem of hegemony in a theory of permanent revolution, demonstrating that Trotsky had a particular understanding of the question of hegemony and that Gramsci, in turn, introduced a concept of hegemony that is closely associated with an idea of permanent revolution, such that the dynamics of the relationship between democratic struggles and socialist struggles presented in both theories are very similar. Juan Dal Maso is an Independent Scholar from the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. .

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968332903321

Autore

Pingali Surana

Titolo

The demon's daughter : a love story from South India / / Pingali Surana ; translated with an afterword by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

9780791482155

0791482154

9781423766865

1423766865

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Altri autori (Persone)

Narayana RaoVelcheru <1932->

ShulmanDavid Dean <1949->

Disciplina

894.8/27371

Soggetti

Telugu literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""The Demon�s Daughter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Demon�s Daughter: A Love Story from South India""; ""1. Prayers""; ""2. The Goose�s



Commission""; ""3. Pradyumna Sends a Letter""; ""4. The Goose Interrogates the Parrot""; ""5. The Lovers Meet""; ""Afterword:  The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers.The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.