Morton, Adam David

Historicizing Gramsci: Situating Ideas in and beyond Their Context

is part of Review of International Political Economy , X , 1 , February, 2003 , pp. 118 - 146

Across debates within political and international theory similar demands have been made concerning the need to 'historicize' the theoretical and practical legacy of the Italian Marxist A. Gramsci. Yet little attention has been hitherto granted to the substantive ontological and epistemological basis of such demands. By outlining a series of interpretative controversies and examining in detail the question of historicizing Gramsci, this article addresses some of the principal demands to historicize Gramsci before discerning any contemporary relevance. By tackling such demands within their own terms and according to their own stipulations an immanent critique is developed. This tactic of an immanent critique offers an approach to the history of ideas useful to the present, it locates ideas both in and beyond their context, and it also pushes one to consider what might be historically limited in a theoretical and practical translation ofpast ideas in relation to alternative conditions. (IGS News, n. 14)

Language	eng
Names	[author] Morton, Adam David
Subjects	Sraffa, Piero Neogramscismo Sraffa, Piero Neo Gramscism