Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity (Historical Materialism Book, #215)

by Francesca Antonini

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Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2021.

Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormani International Prize' for works on Antonio Gramsci (Fifth edition, 2020).



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, yet importantly, Antonini's analysis illuminates Gramsci's approach towards the Marxian legacy.



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  • ISBN10 9004321675
  • ISBN13 9789004321670
  • Publish Date 12 November 2020 (first published 4 November 2020)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill