Using Gramsci

• Series Preface
• p. ix

• Acknowledgements
• p. xii

• Abbreviations
• p. xv

• Introduction
• p. 1

• 1
• Ideology
• p. 4

• The problem of ideology
• p. 4

• The historicity of the concept of ideology
• p. 5

• The complexity of ideology
• p. 9

• The truth/falsity of ideology
• p. 14

• The conceptual constellation of ideology including hegemony
• p. 18

• 2
• The individual
• p. 24

• The structure of the individual
• p. 24

• The social production of the individual: Gramsci and Durkheim
• p. 28

• 'Man is a social worker': Gramsci and Sorel
• p. 32

• The theory of personality and molecular transformations
• p. 37

• 3
• Collective organisms
• p. 43

• Collective organisms between civil society and the State
• p. 43

• Bureaucracy and officials: Gramsci and Weber
• p. 48

• The political party and the political class
• p. 52

• Organic centralism and living philology
• p. 57

• Machiavelli and the modern Prince
• p. 60

• 4
• Society
• p. 65

• The organicity of society
• p. 65

• Organic intellectuals and mass intellectuality
• p. 67

• How society works
• p. 73

• Gramsci's 'sociological operators'
• p. 78

• 5
• The crisis
• p. 86

• A new understanding of the crisis
• p. 86

• The multiple meanings of 'crisis'
• p. 90

• The political science of crisis
• p. 94

• Crisis and organization
• p. 100

• 6
• Temporality
• p. 105

• The dual character of Gramscian time
• p. 105

• Signs of time: the theory of personality, common sense, language, East and West
• p. 108

• The shape of duration: the passive revolution
• p. 114

• The form of epoch: how novelty emerges
• p. 118

• Conclusion
• p. 122

• Notes
• p. 124

• Bibliography
• p. 157

• Index
• p. 170