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Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Francesca Antonini
SeriesHistorical Materialism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:252
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9781642595956
ClassificationsDewey:325.32
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Haymarket Books
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publication Date 9 December 2021
Publication Country United States

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. is winner of the prestigious Giuseppe Sormani International Prize for works on Antonio Gramsci.

Author Biography

Francesca Antonini, Ph.D. (2015), is Early Career Fellow in Intellectual History at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen, Germany). Previously, she has held research fellowships at the ENS Lyon (France) and at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin, Italy).