Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci : A Missed Encounter (Paperback)

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: Gramsci and Benjamin Critics of Socialism? Part 2: Revolution, Counterrevolution, 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 the Passive Revolutions??Part 3: Capitalist Modes of Production, 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 Marginalized 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