Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Gramsci and critical theories: towards a 'differential pragmatics' -- MARXISM AND MODERNISM -- MODERNISM, GRAMSCI AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL -- BEYOND THE MODERN: LINGUISTICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY -- TOWARDS A 'DIFFERENTIAL PRAGMATICS' -- 2 To realism farewell: Gramsci, Lukacs and Marxist aesthetics -- CRITICAL PRACTICES -- PREDICAMENTS OF HISTORY -- GRAMSCI'S MANZONI: AN INTELLECTUAL WITH CLASS -- LUKÁCS' READING OF MANZONI -- 3 The industrialization of culture: Gramsci with Benjamin, Brecht and the Frankfurt School -- MODERNIST THRESHOLDS -- GRAMSCI, TURIN AND CULTURE INDUSTRY -- 4 Gramsci's theory of consciousness: between alienation, reification and Bloch's 'principle of hope' -- OBJECTIVITY, SUBJECTIVITY AND GRAMSCI'S PIRANDELLO -- SUBJECTS OF POPULAR CULTURE -- 5 Phenomenology, linguistics, hegemony -- BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND RECEPTION: GRAMSCI'S DANTE AND HIS READERS -- TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF ACTIVE COMMUNICATION: GRAMSCI AND VOLOŠINOV -- THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE PRISON WORLD: GRAMSCI AND MERLEAU-PONTY -- 6 Gramsci's intellectual and the age of information technology -- THE ADVENTURES OF A CONCEPT IN GRAMSCI'S TEXTS -- Model 1: The traditional intellectual: artist, philosopher, poet -- Model 2: The 'Structure of Feeling' and 'Intellectual Community' -- Model 3: The 'organic intellectual', the 'new intellectual', the 'critical specialist' -- Model 4: The 'universal intellectual' -- 'MODE OF PRODUCTION' AND 'MODE OF INFORMATION' -- BETWEEN HABERMAS AND LYOTARD: GRAMSCI'S INTELLECTUAL AND 'DIFFERENTIAL PRAGMATICS' -- 7 In lieu of a conclusion: Gramsci, feminism, Foucault -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a theory of art, politics and cultural production. Gramsci's achievement is discussed particularly in relation to the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Bloch, Habermas), to Brecht's theoretical writings and to thinkers in the phenomenological tradition especially Merleau-Ponty. She argues for Gramsci's continuing relevance at a time of retreat from Marxist positions on the postmodern left. Antonio Gramsci is distinguished by its range of philosophical grasp, its depth of specialized historical scholarship, and its keen sense of Gramsci's position as a crucial figure in the politics of contemporary cultural theory.

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