Alastair Davidson
Volume Editor: Peter Beilharz
Alastair Davidson is a pioneer of global Gramsci studies, beginning with his first essays from 1968 through to the present.This volume collects his work from various difficult to access sources covering such diverse topics as the sources: Marx, Lenin, Machiavelli, Labriola and Croce; the party and workers councils, through to the question of what is living and what is dead in the legacy of Gramsci, cultural studies and subalternality, uneven development and globalization, human rights and the peasantry, literature and culture.
Biographical Note
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University. He has published thirty books, including Circling Marx (Brill 2020), and is founding editor of Thesis Eleven, which he established with Alastair Davidson in Melbourne in 1980.
Readership
This book is especially relevant for all those interested in Gramsci, Gramsci studies, Italian modernity, history of socialism, socialism in Australia.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 Origins and Trajectories
1 Gramsci and Australia (2007)
2 Gramsci, Hegemony and Globalization (2005)
3 Global Culture and Migration (2008)
4 History, Human Rights and the Left (2010)
Part 2 Locating Gramsci
5 The Varying Seasons of Gramsci Studies (1972)
6 The Uses and Abuses of Gramsci (2008)
7 Gramsci in the Anglo Saxon World (1968)
8 Gramsci, the Man (1969)
9 Gramsci and the Party (1968)
10 Gramsci, Hegemony, and Peasant Culture (1968)
11 Gramsci and the State (1968)
12 Gerratana’s Prison Notebooks (1977)
13 Hegemony (1968)
14 Marxism and Italian Culture (1968)
15 Italian Communism (1968)
16 The Italo-Marxism of Labriola and Mondolfo (1979)
17 Gramsci and Lenin (1974)
18 Gramsci and Machiavelli (1973)
19 Gramsci and Foucault (1968)
20 Gramsci (1992)
21 ABC Radio Guest of Honour Talk (1968)
22 Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment (2011)
23 New Preface to Antonio Gramsci– Toward an Intellectual Biography (2015)
Part 3 Gramsci, Literature, Folklore and the Peasantry
24 The Literary Criticism of Antonio Gramsci (1977)
25 Gramsci, the Peasantry and Popular Culture (1984)
26 Gramsci, Folklore and Polular Wisdom (1968)
27 In Memory of Hamish Hamilton (2012)
28 Gramsci, Folklore and Autonomy (1999)
29 Hegemony, Language and Popular Wisdom (2008)
30 Gramsci and Human Rights (2005)
Alastair Davidson and Kathleen Weekley
31 Gramsci and the World of the Peasant (1984)
References
Index