Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci

Francesca Antonini

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Author
Francesca Antonini
Publish Date
2021-10-22
Subtitle
Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
252
Publisher Name
Haymarket Books
ISBN-10
1642595950
ISBN-13
9781642595956
citemno
257556
SKU
9781642595956

Description

In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Building 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 twentieth centuries. While this model is essential to Gramsci's understanding of the interwar period and of the Fascist regime in Italy, it also sheds a meaningful light on other past and present scenarios, from the French Second Empire to the USSR of his time. Finally, Antonini's analysis illuminates Gramsci's approach towards the Marxian legacy.

Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci is winner of the prestigious Giuseppe Sormani International Prize for works on Antonio Gramsci.