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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 At a time in which Marxism was considered to be outdated and in crisis, both Gramsci's and Benjamin's thoughts provided resources for its renewal: particularly in postcolonial studies for Gramsci and in new media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.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Philosophy of History and Historical Materialism 1. Benjamin's Break With Newtonian Time and the Introduction of Relativist Space-Time Into Critique 2. Between Determinism, Freedom, and Messianism: Gramsci and Benjamin on History 3. Historical Materialism and Philosophy of Praxis: Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci Critics of Socialism Part 2: Revolution, Counter-revolution, and Passive Revolution 4. Present, Presence, Passive Revolution: Gramsci and Benjamin 5. On Gramscian Temporality 6. Charles Baudelaire in the Age of Passive Revolution: Benjamin and Gramsci 7. Gramsci, Benjamin, and Passive Revolutions Part 3: Capitalist Modes of Production, and Production of Subjectivity 8. The Little Prince: Sorel, Myth and Violence Between Benjamin and Gramsci 9. "To Live in a Glass House": Gramsci and Benjamin, or What Becomes of Historical Materialism When the Personal Is Political 10. Technique and politics: From Gramsci to Benjamin 11. Social Rebels and Rag Pickers: On the Theoretical Function of Marginalised People in Gramsci and Benjamin Part 4: Translation and Criticism, Avant-garde and Popular Culture 12. Critique, Mediation, and Strategy: From Gramsci to Benjamin 13. Language in the Age of Its Capitalist Translatability 14. A Non-Real Fire: Gramsci and Benjamin, Interpreters of Futurism 15. The Contours of the Banal: Popular Art and Culture, Folklore and Kitsch
