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Aakar Books The Gramscian Moment Philosophy Hegemony and Marxism (Historical Materialism Series) by Peter D Thomas
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought innumerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has been subjected, resulting in often contradictory ‘images of Gramsci’. This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramsci's thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, the Gramscian moment argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of developing a ‘philosophy of praxis’ as a vital element in the contemporary revitalization of Marxism.Table of Contents:A Note on the TextAcknowledgementPrefaceChapters:The Moment of Reading CapitalI can only think of GramsciReading Capital in its momentThe last great theoretical debate of MarxismAlthusserianismGramscianismMarxist PhilosophyA New Philosophy of PraxisA New Practice of PhilosophyMarxism and PhilosophyThe Althusserian and Gramscian MomentsGramsci's Organic ConceptsAn Enduring EncounterMarxist philosophy todayPhilosophy, Hegemony and the State: Metaphysical Event and Philosophical FactAntinomies of Antonio GramsciIncompletion and ReconstructionA theoretical toolbox?Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci'1+1=3Detours via DetoursThe Emergence of Hegemony and its DeformationThree versions of Hegemony in the WestPolitical Society plus Civil Society equals StateShadows of CroceEasy and West, Past and PresentAntinomies of the United FrontThe Specter of KautskyA Labyrinth within a LabyrinthA Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an EnigmaOn the Literary Form of the Prison NotebooksTraces of the pastAn Arbitrary and Mechanical Hypostatization of the moment of hegemonyA Strategy of DetoursState, Integral state, Political SocietyBase and Superstructure, Superstructures and IdeologiesCode languageA Helmet of Hades?From 'm' to the Philosophy of Praxis'HieroglyphsFur EwigThree Phases of WorkFirst PhaseSecond PhaseThird PhaseIncompletion: A Work in ProgressFragmentary PhilologyAn Anti-Philosophical novelAn Unfinished DialogueThe Education of the EducatorNecessary IncompletionAn Ariadne's ThreadPreliminary PhilologyDifferential TemporalitiesA Modern ClassicContra the Passive RevolutionThe Integral StateThe Long Nineteenth CenturyThe Birth of Civil SocietyPassive RevolutionWar of Position'War of Position' versus 'War of Movement'Two Phases of Passive RevolutionDuration versus Historical EpochCrisis of AuthorityModernity as Passive Revolution?Civil and Political HegemonyConsent versus CoercionPolitical Leadership becomes an Aspect of DominationThe Dual PerspectiveCivil Society versus the StateSuper Structural levelsThe Concept of Civil Society as used in these notesThe State as the Truth of Civil SocietyThe Particularity of the Integral StateCivil Society as the Secret of the StatePolitical Society Five the StateAttributes of the Integral StateThe Location of HegemonyThe Realization of HegemonyWest versus EastPredominance as WeaknessThe Underdeveloped WestThe Absent Centre of the WestAntinomies of East and WestThe International Capitalist State-FormDifferential Temporalities of the StateHegemony, Bourgeois and ProletarianA Generic Theory of Social Power?The Hegemonic Apparatus: Political Power as Immanent to Class PowerWhich Lenin?The Realization of HegemonyThe NEPGramsci's NEPNEP United Front - Evil and Political HegemonyActually of the United FrontThe Philosophy of Praxis is the Absolute HistoricismThe Absolute HistoricismTheory of History and HistoriographyThe Popular Aspect of Modern HistoricismTwo Critiques: Liquidation and DilutionGramsci Contra Bukharin and DiamatAn Anti-CrocePost-Marxism Avant la letterHistory of FreedomReform or Destruction of the DialecticCroce’s Absolute HistoricismGramsci’s Absolute Historicism: A first ApproachSpeculationSpeculative Philosophy as a Moment of HegemonyIdeology Five PhilosophyThe Non-Contemporaneity of the PresentThe impossibility of an ‘essential section’Philosophy Five history five politicsThe philosophy of praxis as the ‘catharsis’ of a determinate practical lifeTowards a philosophy of praxisThe philosophy of praxis is the absolute historicismHistorical materialismThe so-called objectivity of the external worldThe Absolute Secularization and Earthliness of ThoughtAlthusserian scienceSpecters of BukharinThe Kernel of the Philosophy of PraxisUnder the Shadow of CroceAlso Science is a SuperstructureTraces of ImmanenceThe Diesseitigkeit of Absolute Immanence: TheoryGramsci: LinguistHistory, Metaphor, HegemonyAufhebung as Inheritance: Supersession and AssumptionNominalism versus PhilologyA Completely Autonomous and Independent Structure of thoughtThe Subterranean current of Philosophies of ImmanenceWhy Immanence?Absolute ImmanenceThe transcendence of philosophies of immanenceGramsci: EconomistSpeculative Immanence and Historical and Realistic ImmanenceDeterminate MarketThe Tangential Laws of the Determinate Market: The Philology of Relations of ForceThree sources of Marxism or Historical Process still in Movement’?Immanence as the Unitary Synthetic Moment of the Philosophy of PraxisImmanence equals TheoryRendering Practice more CoherentThe merely formal difference of CoherenceLogical CoherenceCoherence and the Capacity to actUna persona couranteThe incoherence of sensor communePlatonic Anti-PlatonismThe Identity of Theory and PracticeAn Absolute Humanism of HistoryThe Humanist ControversyA Return of the Subject?The Union of Humanism and HistoricismAn ensemble of historically determined social relationsSubject of Persona?The Gramscian PersonHumanism, Hegemony and IntellectualsMarxism and the IntellectualsA Sociology of the Italian IntellectualsIntellectuals and the Integral StateFunction of IntellectualsOrganic and Traditional IntellectualsA Power Mechanism for Conforming New ForcesRenaissance HumanismRenaissance versus ReformationNeo-HumanismPhilosophes sive PoliticsThe Democratic PhilosopherThe Democratic Philosopher and Sensor CommuneThe Democratic Philosopher as Aeolian harpThe Democratic Philosopher as CollectivityThe Modern Prince and Apparatus of Proletarian Hegemony as Philosophical FactConclusion: Marxism and Philosophy: TodayReferencesName IndexSubject Index