Description:The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of
Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought
was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best known concepts – hegemony,
civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo, the integral
state – and uses them creatively to analyse features of present-day politics,
assessing to what extent his ideas can aid our understanding of the contemporary
political world.