Gramsci and Contemporary Politics

Anne Showstack Sassoon’s publications include Gramsci’s Politics, and Women and the State: The Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private. She is Professor of Politics at Kingston University, UK.

• Chapter 1 Facing the Future, Evaluating the Past; Part 1 Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 2 The Challenge to Traditional Intellectuals; Chapter 3 The Politics of The Organic Intellectuals; Chapter 4 Gramsci’s Subversion of the Language of Politics; Part 2 Political Interventions; Chapter 5 Equality and Difference; Chapter 6 Back to the Future; Chapter 7 Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect; Chapter 8 From Realism to Creativity; Part 3 Reflections and Explorations; Chapter 9 Rethinking Socialism; Chapter 10 Dear Parent…; Chapter 11 Subjective Authenticity, Cultural Specificity, Individual and Collective Projects;