Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci

Giuseppe Cospito, Ph.D. (1999), University of Turin, is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pavia. He has published monographs and a number of articles on Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, Carlo Cattaneo and Antonio Gramsci.

• A Note on the TextPreface: Questions of Method PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY-POLITICS-ECONOMICS 1. Structure and Superstructures1.1. Working hypothesis 1.2. The ‘Bukharin’ phase (from the party school to Notebook 4, §§ 12 and 15: 1925–30) 1.3. The ‘centrist’ thesis from the end of 1930 (Notebook 4, § 38)1.4. The ‘crisis’ of 1931 (Notebook 7)1.5. Moving beyond the architectural metaphor (Notebook 8: end of 1931 – beginning of 1932) 1.6. The ‘inertia’ of the old formulations (Notebooks 10, 11 and 13: 1932–3)1.7. ‘Unended Quest’ (Notebooks 10, 11, 14, 15 e 17: 1932-35)1.8 Provisional conclusions2. Hegemony2.1. Introduction 2.2. ‘Posing the issue’2.3. Hegemony and civil society2.4. Hegemony and the intellectuals2.5. Hegemony and the party 2.6. The sources of Gramsci’s concept of hegemony2.7. A (re)definition of Gramsci’s concept of hegemony3. Regulated Society3.1. Philosophy-Politics-Economics 3.2. ‘Importuning the texts’3.3. The regulated society ‘from Utopia to science’3.4. Towards a new Reformation?3.5. Gramsci as critic of the ‘critical economy’3.6. Toward ‘a new economic science’PART TWO: THE ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF THE NOTEBOOKS4. The ‘Alternatives’ to Structure-Superstructure 4.1. ‘Quantity and quality’4.2. ‘Content and form’4.3. ‘Objective and subjective’4.4. ‘Historical bloc’5. The Gradual Transformation in Gramsci’s Categories5.1. Methodological premise5.2. Organic centralism; Postilla 5.3. Common sense and/or good sense5.4. Civil society6. Gramsci and the Marxist Tradition6.1. ‘Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works’: Caesarism and Bonapartism6.2. Engels and the Marxist vulgate6.3. Conclusion: Gramsci, from Lenin to MarxBibliographyIndex