E-grāmata: Gramsci''s Democratic Theory: Contributions to a Post-Liberal Democracy

Foreword vii Ernesto Laclau Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Setting the Problem 3(16) Clarifying the `limits to liberalism 4(5) The second impasse 9(4) The Hegelian interpretation and attempted resolution of the impasse 13(6) Gramscis Epistemological Eclecticism: What He Borrows from Vico and Croce, and Why 19(22) Against `external realities or dualisms of any kind 21(2) The contributions of Vico: Science as knowledge as history 23(1) Why Croce 24(17) Science, Immanence, and the `Real Dialectic: A Question of the Political 41(27) The `political moment 43(5) The Problem (and importance) of science 48(7) Rational and real in the `real dialectic 55(13) The Understated Importance of the Concept of the Will 68(20) Will as the basis of a philosophy of praxis 71(5) `Ethico-political as an expression of collective will 76(8) The dilemma of a `totalized social immanent in its expression 84(4) Investigating the Base/Superstructure Dilemma and What Gramsci Does to Change It 88(35) The `base versus the `structure dilemma 90(4) The `economic as `structure (or the so-called problem of `quantity) 94(8) Into the structure and what Gramsci finds there 102(4) From hegemony in the structure to the ethico-political state 106(17) Gramscis Contribution to a Post-Liberal-Democratic Theory: Concluding Remarks 123(16) Gramscis contribution 123(9) The continuing search 132(7) Notes 139(50) Bibliography 189(22) Index 211

Sue Golding is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Essex University, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.