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Rethinking Gramsci

Rethinking Gramsci provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Antonio Gramscis contributions to the fields of political and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad range of important political and cultural theorists from around the world and explains the origins, development, and context for Gramscis thought, as well as analyzing his continued relevance and influence to contemporary debates.

The volume demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of Gramscian thought to produce new insights into the intersection of economic, political, cultural, and social processes, and provides a vital resource for readers across the disciplines of political theory, cultural studies, political economy, philosophy, and subaltern studies.

Marcus E. Green, Ph.D. (York University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Otterbein University and Secretary of the International Gramsci Society. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Antonio Gramsci and subalternity.

Routledge innovations in political theory

1 A Radical Green Political Theory

Alan Carter

2 Rational Woman

A feminist critique of dualism

Raia Prokhovnik

3 Rethinking State Theory

Mark J. Smith

4 Gramsci and Contemporary Politics

Beyond pessimism of the intellect

Anne Showstack Sassoon

5 Post-Ecologist Politics

Social theory and the abdication of the ecologist paradigm

Ingolfur Blhdorn

6 Ecological Relations

Susan Board

7 The Political Theory of Global Citizenship

April Carter

8 Democracy and National Pluralism

Edited by Ferran Requejo

9 Civil Society and Democratic Theory

Alternative voices Gideon Baker

10 Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory

Between critical theory and post-Marxism

Mark Devenney

11 Citizenship and Identity

Towards a new republic

John Schwarzmantel

12 Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights

Edited by Bruce Haddock and Peter Sutch

13 Political Theory of Global Justice

A cosmopolitan case for the world state

Luis Cabrera

14 Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism

Edited by Ramn Maiz and Ferrn Requejo

15 Political Reconciliation

Andrew Schaap

16 National Cultural Autonomy and Its Contemporary Critics

Edited by Ephraim Nimni

17 Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought

New theories of the political

Saul Newman

18 Capabilities Equality

Basic issues and problems

Edited by Alexander Kaufman

19 Morality and Nationalism

Catherine Frost

20 Principles and Political Order

The challenge of diversity

Edited by Bruce Haddock, Peri

Roberts and Peter Sutch

21 European Integration and the Nationalities Question

Edited by John McGarry and Michael Keating

22 Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

David van Mill

23 Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice

Critical perspectives in political theory and practice

Edited by Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon and Avigail Eisenberg

24 The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order

Edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito

25 In Defense of Human Rights

A non-religious grounding in a pluralistic world

Ari Kohen

26 Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political TheoryJason Glynos and David Howarth

27 Political Constructivism

Peri Roberts

28 The New Politics of Masculinity

Men, power and resistance

Fidelma Ashe

29 Citizens and the State

Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia

Takashi Inoguchi and Jean Blondel

30 Political Language and Metaphor

Interpreting and changing the world

Edited by Terrell Carver and Jernej Pikalo

31 Political Pluralism and the State

Beyond sovereignty

Marcel Wissenburg

32 Political Evil in a Global Age

Hannah Arendt and international theory

Patrick Hayden

33 Gramsci and Global Politics

Hegemony and resistance

Mark McNally and John Schwarzmantel

34 Democracy and Pluralism

The political thought of William E. Connolly

Edited by Alan Finlayson

35 Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict

Edited by Maria Dimova-Cookson and Peter Stirk

36 John Stuart Mill Thought and Influence

The saint of rationalism

Edited by Georgios Varouxakis and Paul Kelly

37 Rethinking Gramsci

Edited by Marcus E. Green

Rethinking Gramsci

Edited by Marcus E. Green

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Rethinking Gramsci / edited by Marcus E Green.

p. cm. (Routledge innovations in political theory ; 37)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Gramsci, Antonio, 18911937Political and social views. 2. Political

sciencePhilosophyHistory20th century. I. Green, Marcus E.

JC265.G68R48 2011 320.532092dc22

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ISBN: 978-0-415-77973-9 (hbk)

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Contributors

Frank R. Annunziato is the executive director of the University of Rhode Island Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

Derek Boothman teaches translation at the University of Bolognas faculty for interpreters and translators (SSLMIT). He edited and translated the anthology of Gramscis prison writings, Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Lawrence and Wishart, University of Minnesota Press, 1995), is the author of Traducibilit e processi traduttivi. Un caso: A. Gramsci linguista (2004), has written extensively on Gramsci, and is a member of Romes Seminario gramsciano.

Paul Bov is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of the journal boundary 2. He has written extensively on culture, modernity, poetry, and intellectuals. He is the author of Intellectuals in Power: A Genealogy of Critical Humanism (1986), In the Wake of Theory (1992), Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture