La France d'Antonio Gramsci

• Other Authors: Descendre, Romain (Editor), Zancarini, Jean-Claude (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Lyon ENS Éditions 2021
• Series: Gouvernement en question(s)
• Subjects: European history; French politics; French history; French thought; French literature
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This book offers an original analysis of the place and function of French history, politics, and culture in Antonio Gramsci's education and reflection. Gramsci thinks about France, its history, politics, and culture, but his intention goes far beyond that. He truly uses France to think about Italy and its place in a "great and terrible world", which at the time was shaken by the Great War, the Russian Revolution, the emergence of fascisms and the beginnings of the United States hegemony. Consisting of constant back-and-forths between France, a point of comparison more than a model, Italy and the world, this book uses the texts - first and foremost the Prison Notebooks - as a starting point to examine some of his most important concepts, such as Jacobinism or national-populism and several of his historical themes, from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution. They also explore the political and cultural aspect of Gramsci's thought, when he takes an interest in Action Française and the philosophy of Charles Maurras, the failed coup d'état by General Boulanger or the episodes of the Dreyfus Affair. In the end, however, it is always a dual perspective, indissociably European and internationalist, that underlies "Gramsci's France".