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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794292203321

Autore

Antonini Francesca

Titolo

Caesarism and bonapartism in gramsci : hegemony and the crisis of modernity / / Francesca Antonini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, Massachusetts : , : BRILL, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44182-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

325.32

Soggetti

Bonapartism

Caesarism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism from Marx to Gramsci -- The pre prison writings -- Socialism and romanticism -- Crisis and balance: Between revolution and restoration -- Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism in Gramsci's journalistic works -- Towards the prison notebooks -- The meanings of 'Bonapartism' -- Between Bonapartism and Caesarism -- Gramsci and the theory of Caesarism -- Caesarism and historical analysis -- Hegemony and modernity -- Contemporary Caesarism(s) -- Caesarism, Bonapartism and the 'Return to Marx' in the prison -- Writings.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Capitalising on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, she investigates his usage of the concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism, both in his pre-prison writings and in the Prison Notebooks . The Caesarist-Bonapartist paradigm relates crucially to Gramsci's reflections on hegemony and on its transformations across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsci's understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it sheds a meaningful light also on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to contemporary USSR. Finally, yet importantly, such an analysis illuminates Gramsci's approach towards the Marxian legacy"--