Gramsci's Political Thought.

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Foreword; Preface; Chapter One Youth, a Contradictory Formation: 1910-18; 1.1. Sardinia; 1.2. The encounter with Croce and Gentile; 1.3. Gramsci turns away from the Marxism of the Second International; Chapter Two Workers' Democracy and Factory-Councils: 1919-20; 2.1. L'Ordine Nuovo; 2.2. Gramsci and Bordiga; 2.3. The defeat of the councils; Chapter Three Passage to Maturity: 1921-6; 3.1. From the foundation of the PCd'I to the fight against fascism; 3.2. The struggle against sectarianism; 3.3. The first formulations of the concept of hegemony.

Chapter Four Methodological Observations on the Prison Notebooks4.1. The systematic nature of the Notebooks; 4.2. Gramsci's place in the evolution of Marxism; 4.3. Gramsci as a critic of politics; 4.4. On the relations between politics, economics and social totality; 4.5. Gramsci's philosophical conceptions; Chapter Five The 'Extended' Theory of the State; 5.1. The concept of 'civil society'; 5.2. 'Regulated society' and the end of the state; Chapter Six Socialist Strategy in the 'West'; 6.1. War of movement and war of position; 6.2. On the concept of passive revolution.

6.3. From Gramsci's proposal of a 'constituent assembly' to Togliatti's 'progressive democracy'Chapter Seven The Party as 'Collective Intellectual'; Chapter Eight The Current Relevance and Universality of Gramsci; 8.1. Another socialist model; 8.2. A radical conception of democracy; 8.3. With Gramsci, beyond Gramsci; Appendix One General Will and Democracy in Rousseau, Hegel and Gramsci; 1.1. The priority of the public; 1.2. Rousseau and the general will; 1.3. Hegel and the determinations of will; 1.4. Gramsci and hegemony as contract.

Appendix Two The Neoliberal Age: Passive Revolution or Counter-Reformation?2.1. Counter-reformation; 2.2. The welfare-state as passive revolution; 2.3. Neoliberalism as counter-reformation; 2.4. Transformism; Appendix Three Gramsci and Brazil; 3.1. Reception; 3.2. Uses; References; Name Index.

In Gramsci's Political Thought, Carlos Nelson Coutinho offers an analysis of the evolution of the political thought of Antonio Gramsci. Focusing on central concepts of the Prison Notebooks and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, the book also demonstrates that Gramsci's ideas continue to be relevant resources for understanding the controversies of our present time.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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