
Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci
A Missed Encounter
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Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci
A Missed Encounter
About this book
This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side.
Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Two Marxists sui generis, they radically changed Marxism's themes and vocabulary, profoundly influencing the most significant analyses and debates. At a time in which Marxism was considered to be outdated and in crisis, both Gramsci's and Benjamin's thoughts provided resources for its renewal: particularly in postcolonial studies for Gramsci and in new media studies for Benjamin. Both were victims of fascism, on the threshold of the catastrophe of the Second World War. These two philosophers' posthumous fortune depended on the transmission of their thought, which was first entrusted to friends and comrades, and then to entire generations of scholars from a wide range of disciplines.
Editors, Dario Gentili, Elettra Stimilli, and Gabriele Guerra explore with leading voices on Benjamin and Gramsci the most relevant and topical issues today. The book gives an indispensable new perspective in Marxism for students and researchers alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Philosophy of History and Historical Materialism
- Part 2 Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Passive Revolution
- Part 3 Capitalist Modes of Production and Production of Subjectivity
- Part 4 Translation and Criticism, Avant-Garde and Popular Culture
- Index