Gramsci and the history of dialectical thought

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Gramsci and the history of dialectical thought

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Bibliography: p. 292-304

Includes index

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Description

This is an interpretative and evaluative study of the thought of Antonio Gramsci, the founding father of the Italian Communist Party who died in 1937 after ten years of imprisonment in Fascist jails. It proceeds by a rigorous textual analysis of his Prison Notebooks, the scattered notes he wrote during his incarceration. Professor Finocchiaro explores the nature of Gramsci's dialectical thinking, in order to show in what ways Gramsci was and was not a Marxist, as well as to illustrate correspondences with the work of Hegel, Croce, and Bukharin. The book provides a critical reappraisal of Gramsci as a thinker and of the dialectical approach as a mode of inquiry.

Table of Contents

  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gramsci's Crocean critique of Croces's philosophy
  • 2. Croce and the theory and practice of criticism
  • 3. Gramsci's methodological criticism of Bukharin's sociology
  • 4. Bukharin and the theory and practice of science
  • 5. Gramsci's dialectical interpretation of Machiavelli's politics
  • 6. Gramsci's political translation of Hegelian-Marxian dialectic
  • 7. Hegel and the theory and practice of dialectic
  • 8. Gramsci and the evaluation of Marxism
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BA06822210
  • ISBN
    • 052136096X
  • LCCN
    88003789
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 313 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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