Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity

‎Contents
‎Preface: Gramsci on Caesarism and Bonapartism
‎Acknowledgements
‎Abbreviations
‎Note on the Text
‎Chapter 1. The Concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism from Marx to Gramsci
	‎1. The Genesis of the Category between Historiography and Political Polemics
	‎2. Marx: From The Eighteenth Brumaire to The Civil War in France
	‎3. Across the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
‎Chapter 2. The Pre-prison Writings
	‎1. Two (Almost) Neglected Categories
	‎2. Marx, Gramsci and the Marxian Sources
‎Chapter 3. Socialism and Romanticism
	‎1. Against Maximalism and Reformism: Reckoning with Italian Socialism
		‎1.1. Cadorna and Bonapartism
		‎1.2. Trade Unionism and Bonapartism
		‎1.3. Parliamentary Cretinism and Socialist Reformism
		‎1.4. In Memory of Serrati
	‎2. The ‘Romanticism’ of the Italian Bourgeoisie
		‎2.1. Marx, Gramsci and the feuilleton
		‎2.2. Gioda o del romanticismo and Parabola discendente
		‎2.3. Italy’s Tragic Farce
‎Chapter 4. Crisis and Balance: Between Revolution and Restoration
	‎1. Gramsci’s Political Theory: Crisis and Balance
	‎2. The Catastrophic Crisis of Capitalism
		‎2.1. Gramsci and the Third International
		‎2.2. A Decay and a Genesis
		‎2.3. Revolution and Crisis of the Bourgeois-Capitalist World
		‎2.4. The Elections of November 1919
		‎2.5. A Short Revival
	‎3. The Balance Metaphor: The Origins of the ‘Relations of Force’
		‎3.1. A ‘Catastrophic’ Balance
		‎3.2. Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie or Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
		‎3.3. An Illiberal Order
‎Chapter 5. Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism in Gramsci’s Journalistic Works
	‎1. The Crisis of the Liberal Order and the Rise of Fascism
	‎2. A (Critical) Theory of State and Politics
	‎3. Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire: Analogies and Analyses
	‎4. On the Gramsci-Marx Relationship in the Pre-prison Writings
‎Chapter 6. Towards the Prison Notebooks
	‎1. Continuity and Novelty
	‎2. The Editions of Marx’s Texts
	‎3. Overview of the Occurrences
‎Chapter 7. The Meanings of ‘Bonapartism’
	‎1. Bonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
	‎2. Militarism and War of Movement
		‎2.1. Cadornism and Bonapartism
		‎2.2. Trotsky and the War of Movement
	‎3. Gramsci and the So-called ‘Dictatorships of Depretis, Crispi and Giolitti’
	‎4. Bonapartism and Bureaucracy
		‎4.1. At the Origin of the Relationship
		‎4.2. Between Marx and the Southern Question
‎Chapter 8. Between Bonapartism and Caesarism
	‎1. Anachronistic Revival or Useful Analytical Tool?
	‎2. Q 13, §§23 and 27 and Their First Drafts
	‎3. Further Occurrences
‎Chapter 9. Gramsci and the Theory of Caesarism
	‎1. Michels and ‘Charismatic Leadership’
		‎1.1. Q 2, §75
		‎1.2. A ‘Programmatic’ Ambivalence
	‎2. ‘The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born’
		‎2.1. The Balance Formula in the Prison Notebooks
		‎2.2. Balance and Catastrophe
	‎3. The Dreyfus Affair and the ‘Tendential’ Character of the Catastrophic Crisis
	‎4. The ‘Taxonomy’ of Caesarism
		‎4.1. Great Personalities and Historical Analogies
		‎4.2. The Articulation of the Category
		‎4.3. An ‘Incomplete’ Scheme
‎Chapter 10. Caesarism and Historical Analysis
	‎1. Gramscian ‘Concerns’
		‎1.1. Practical Criteria of Interpretation
		‎1.2. Julius Caesar and Caesarism
	‎2. The Historico-political Framework of the Prison Notebooks
		‎2.1. Gramsci’s ‘Plural Temporalities’ and the Case of France
		‎2.2. The ‘Waves’ of History
		‎2.3. Napoleon III as Archetype of Caesarism
	‎3. Caesarism and Passive Revolution
		‎3.1. The Meanings of a Category
		‎3.2. Marx’s ‘Canons’ and the Issue of the Marginal Forces
		‎3.3. ‘Effectual Reality’ and New Instruments of Analysis
‎Chapter 11. Hegemony and Modernity
	‎1. Twentieth-Century Caesarism
		‎1.1. MacDonald, the Labour Party and the Coalition Governments
		‎1.2. Italy in the 1920s
		‎1.3. Fascism and Caesarism: A Controversial Match
	‎2. Crisis of Authority and Caesarist-Bonapartist Solutions
		‎2.1. The Organic Crisis
		‎2.2. The ‘Massive Structure of the Modern Democracies’
	‎3. A New Form of Hegemony
		‎3.1. A Post-Jacobin Framework
		‎3.2. The Issue of the ‘Dark Powers’
		‎3.3. Bureaucracy, Military Associations, Police
		‎3.4. Bonapartism, Caesarism and Fascism
‎Chapter 12. Contemporary Caesarism(s)
	‎1. Totalitarian Trends
		‎1.1. War of Position, Siege, and Concentration
		‎1.2. A ‘Totalitarian’ Conception of the World
		‎1.3. The Role of the Party
	‎2. Between Moscow and Rome
		‎2.1. Progressive or Regressive Authoritarianism?
		‎2.2. Fascist Corporatism
		‎2.3. ‘Statolatry’ and the ‘Return’ of the Economic-Corporative Phase
		‎2.4. Trotsky, Bonapartism and Napoleonism
	‎3. ‘Alternative Modernities’
		‎3.1. Black Parliamentarism, Critique and Self-critique
		‎3.2. The Legal-Real Opposition and the Image of the Barometer
	‎4. ‘Caesarism without a Caesar’ and the Issue of the Modern Prince
		‎4.1. Individual Action and Collective Will
		‎4.2. Caesarism and the Modern Prince
		‎4.3. The ‘Party-Caesar’ and the Role of Charismatic Figures
‎Chapter 13. Caesarism, Bonapartism and the ‘Return to Marx’ in the Prison Writings
	‎1. Gramsci and the Marxian Legacy
	‎2. Caesarism and Bonapartism in the Prison Notebooks
‎Bibliography
‎Name Index
‎Subject Index