Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci

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

“It is sadly exceedingly rare to find a book that integrates theory and the ‘real’ world beneath the abstractions meant to explain it. Francesca Antonini’s profound and carefully concise interrogation of the long-neglected concept of Caesarism is a most welcome exception to this rule.” —David Brent Moore, Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power“Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity [...] is very timely in that it represents a retrospective analysis, that is, an analysis of the fascist or interwar period, which holds great potential for contributing a theoretical, historical and conceptional framework to the current debates on democracy.”—Sevgi Doğan, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books“Antonini's book [...] arrives as a timely reminder that authoritarianism develops not only through strictly political structures but also through civil associations, which constitute an integral element of the hegemonic apparatus.”—Ian Anstee, New Political Science