Using Gramsci

Front matter

Michele Filippini

Using Gramsci

Reading Gramsci

Introduction

The problem of ideology

The historicity of the concept of ideology

The complexity of ideology

The truth/falsity of ideology

The conceptual constellation of ideology including hegemony

The structure of the individual

The social production of the individual: Gramsci and Durkheim

‘Man is a social worker’: Gramsci and Sorel

The theory of personality and molecular transformations

Collective organisms between civil society and the State Bureaucracy and officials: Gramsci and Weber

The political party and the political class

Organic centralism and living philology

Machiavelli and the modern Prince

The organicity of society

Organic intellectuals and mass intellectuality How society works

Gramsci’s ‘sociological operators’

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A new understanding of the crisis The multiple meanings of ‘crisis’

The political science of crisis Crisis and organization

The dual character of Gramscian time

Signs of time: the theory of personality, common sense, language, East and West

The shape of duration: the passive revolution

The form of epoch: how novelty emerges