New Gramscian Paths [Paperback]

Preface.? 1. From the October Revolution to the Revolution of the Concept of Revolution? 2. LOrdine Nuovo and Council Democracy? 3. The Discordant Harmony between Gramsci and Luxemburg: A Reconsideration? 4. Gramsci and the Livorno Question? 5. A Strange Interview with Lenin? 6. The Peasant Question and the Southern Question in Gramsci as Theorist and Leader? 7. Conceptions of Subalterns and Subalternity in Gramsci? 8. Machiavelli, Gramsci and the Conception of a New Manifesto? 9. Lenin, Gramsci and the Masses-Party Dialectic

New Gramscian Paths offers biographical, philological, and interpretative advancements in Antonio Gramscis political thought.?Focusing on his pre-prison years, Liguori historically reconstructs and contextualises Gramscis ideas within the broader political, social, ideological, and philosophical landscape of his time.

Guido Liguoris book Nuovi sentieri gramsciani is at the cutting edge of Gramscian scholarship. Now available in English, this generous book offers a plenitude: biographical, philological, and interpretative advancements in Antonio Gramscis political thought to provide new perspectives on key moments in his life and thought.

Grounded in a deep and attentive reading of Gramscis works focusing on his pre-prison years, Liguori historically reconstructs and contextualises Gramscis ideas within the broader political, social, ideological, and philosophical landscape of his time. This includes Gramscis engagement with the Russian Revolution, the Red Biennium 19191920, the foundation of the Communist Party in Italy, his stay in Moscow in the years of the New Economic Policy and his meeting with Lenin; and some of the main aspects of his elaboration (the Southern Question in Italy, the interpretation of Machiavelli, and the theme of autonomy of politics within Marxist theory, the concept of lS—