Philology and Politics: Returning to the Text of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

Buttigieg, Joseph A.

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“…By thus rejecting the austere historicism outlined earlier and following the absolute historicism just discussed it is possible to develop a position that articulates the 'contemporary resonance' of Gramsci's thought because, after all, 'an insistence on historicity is one thing; an a priori determination to fossilise all past quite another' (Femia 1981b: 17). It is this position, relating Gramsci to his historical context whilst avoiding historical reductionism, that is also shared by other scholars such as Anne Showstack Sassoon (1987Sassoon ( , 2000, Christine Buci-Glucksmann (1980: 3-16), Joseph Buttigieg (1986Buttigieg ( , 1990Buttigieg ( , 1994Buttigieg ( , 1995, and Wolfgang Fritz Haug (1999). The overall point is to remain aware of specifi c contextual issues as part of the general historical process because, after all, Gramsci developed a theory that transcended the 'here and now' of contemporary events (Lawner 1979: 6).…”

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“…The reworking of historical materialism that was undertaken by Gramsci in the Prison Notebooks involved affi rming an alternative conception of the state that was identifi ed with the struggle over hegemony in civil society. He regarded the most common error in politics to be that of overlooking an extended notion of the state that he referred to as the 'integral state', meaning a combination of dictatorship and hegemony (Gramsci 1971: 239, Q6 §155; also see Buttigieg 1995). As outlined in one of his prison letters to Tatiana Schucht:…”

Section: The 'Moment Of Hegemony' and Ethico-political Historymentioning

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Unravelling Gramsci: hegemony and passive revolution in the global political economy

2008

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List of Figures 4.1 The relations of force 4.2 The political relation of hegemony 5.1 The dialectical relation of forces 5.2 The dialectical moment of hegemony 6.1 Geopolitical relations and 'the international' vii This book would not have come to fruition without the support and advice of a number of people who merit acknowledgement for the infl uence they have brought to bear on the content that follows. The responsibility for the contents is of course mine. The book itself took form across my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Lancaster University; and the University of Nottingham. During my period at Aberystwyth, I would like to acknowledge the fi nancial support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for both a Ph.D. studentship (reference: R0042963410) and a postdoctoral fellowship (reference: T026271041). More importantly, I thank both Pinar Bilgin and Steve Hobden for carrying me through a great period with their personal friendships that have continued ever since. At Lancaster, I would particularly like to thank Bob Jessop for the infl uential discussions I had with him. He remains a strong inspiration and infl uence despite my institutional and geographical relocation or different 'spatio-temporal fi x'. Similarly the friendship of Graham Smith was a mainstay of support at Lancaster, despite the fact that we never managed to agree on the history of ideas. One could say that our conversations on political theory and indeed our amity were all the more productive precisely because of our intellectual divergences. Among my new colleagues at Nottingham, Andrew Robinson deserves many thanks for providing me with extensive written comments on a draft version of the manuscript. I owe my biggest intellectual debt, though, to Andreas Bieler who also provided detailed comments and feedback on the whole text and with whom I have worked closely over recent years. His exhortations to 'fi nish the book' and, at the same time, his continued counsel to contest the incipient slide towards liberal pluralism within Gramsci studies, were much welcomed. As always, it is his friendship, good humour, and insight that have sustained me through the usual challenges of academic life. Conversations and communications that shaped various parts of the book were also shared with Richard Bellamy,

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Unravelling Gramsci: hegemony and passive revolution in the global political economy

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“…Despite these developments, the above discussion documents how the reception of Gramsci’s legacy in China—such as in Xu’s case, or in the emphasis attached to “cultural hegemony”—has often tended to isolate concepts both “from the rhetorical and literary forms of their articulation and from the material history of their production” (Buttigieg 1994:130). This tendency, however, is far from a merely Chinese phenomenon and urges discussion on the conceptual confusion and translation problems and the selective appropriation afflicting the Chinese reception of Gramsci’s concepts in the context of more overarching problems.…”

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“…How could this “revolutionary Marxist ” (McNally 2015:1, emphasis added) end up with “colonis[ing] language far beyond the ideological area to which it wanted to refer” (Murgia 2014:v)? In reality, quantitative indicators of Gramsci’s popularity do not necessarily imply awareness of the uniqueness of his legacy (Buttigieg 1994:99). Quite the contrary, the irony lies in the spread of a certain “soft Gramscianism” featuring a basic “ lack of engagement with Gramsci” (Loftus 2019:16, emphasis added).…”

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Gramsci in China: Past, Present, and Future of a Still Open Encounter

Caterina

2021

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Assessments of the nature and trajectory of China's political economy polarise into a highly controversial debate. The present paper aims to introduce Antonio Gramsci as a powerful ally in making sense of the specificities of the Chinese case by shedding light on the past, present, and future of the Gramsci-China encounter. Starting from an in-depth assessment of the reception of Gramsci's textual legacy in Mainland China and of the main related problems, the paper promotes a philologically sound, diachronic approach to the potential of a Gramscian perspective in analysing China's peculiar trajectory, such as the ability to focus on: (1) the constructed nature of Chinese hegemony; (2) the terrain of China's integral state; (3) adopted strategies of passive revolution; (4) the materiality of Chinese hegemony; (5) its processual and contested nature across different times and scales; as well as ( 6) key links between intellectuals and the production of common sense.

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Philology and Politics: Returning to the Text of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

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