NEW FROM VERSO:
THE ANTINOMIES OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI
and
THE H-WORD: THE PERIPETEIA OF HEGEMONY
By Perry Anderson
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https://www.versobooks.com/books/2439-the-h-word
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THE ANTINOMIES OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI
Perry Anderson's essay The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci, first
published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the
central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist.
Since then it has been the subject of book-length attacks across four
decades for its disentangling of the hesitations and contradictions in
Gramsci's highly original usage of such key dichotomies as East and West,
domination and direction, hegemony and dictatorship, state and civil
society, and war of position and war of movement.
In a critical tribute to the international richness of Gramsci¹s work, the
essay shows how deeply embedded these notions were in the revolutionary
debates in Tsarist Russia and Wilhelmine Germany. Here arguments
crisscrossed between Plekhanov, Lenin, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lukács and
Trotsky, with later echoes in Brecht and Benjamin.
A new preface considers the objections the essay provoked and the reasons
for them. This edition also includes the first English translation of
Athos Lisa¹s report on Gramsci¹s lectures in prison.
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THE H-WORD: THE PERIPETEIA OF HEGEMONY
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations
and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning,
as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry
Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during
the upheavals of 1848-1849 in Germany. He then follows its checkered
career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Gaullist
France, Thatcher¹s Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist
China, eventually arriving at the world of Merkel and May, Bush and Obama.
The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global
intellectual history, ending with reflections on the contemporary
political landscape.
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THE ANTINOMIES OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI
HARDBACK: APRIL 2017 / 192 PAGES / ISBN 9781786633729 / $24.95 / £14.99 /
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THE H-WORD: THE PERIPETEIA OF HEGEMONY
HARDBACK: APRIL 2017 / 192 PAGES / ISBN 9781786633729 / $26.95 / £16.99 /
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