Universität Wien

210056 SE BAK10/G3/G2: SESpezialisierungsseminar: Reading Gramsci (engl.) (2011W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

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Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 21.10. 09:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
  • Freitag 18.11. 09:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
  • Freitag 09.12. 09:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Reading Gramsci engl - BA

Peter D. Thomas
PeterD.Thomas@Brunel.ac.uk

Inhalte Contents

The seminar provides students with a detailed introduction to Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, in their historical and political context. The seminar will read Gramsci's texts in the chronological order of their composition, and according to thematic groupings. Themes studied include hegemony, ideology, state and civil society, passive revolution, the intellectuals, the subaltern, Marxism and the philosophy of praxis and the modern prince.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Art der Leistungskontrolle/Assessment

i) Attendance at all sessions, preparation of readings and active participation in discussion.
ii) Individual or group presentation on central concepts of the Prison Notebooks, to be decided in consultation with the lecturer. Submission of 2 page presentation outline (20%).
iii) Final research essay - 4000 words (80%)

Written feedback on research essays will be provided by the lecturer.

Literatur/Reading

NB. Students can use the English, German or Italian critical editions of the Prison Notebooks. The English edition currently contains only notebooks 1-8; in the case of texts from other notebooks, the German or Italian editions should be consulted. Further edition and philological information will be distributed prior to the course.

Methoden/Methods

The seminar is run as a 'block seminar'. Attendance at all sessions is obligatory. Students are expected to prepare thoroughly the reading prior to each seminar and to engage actively in seminar discussions. Each seminar will begin with a brief introductory lecture on the historical and political background of Gramsci's writings, and key concepts and themes from the assigned readings. The main mode of work of the seminar will consist in close reading and discussion of the text of the Prison Notebooks, supplemented by reference to the most important critical literature.

Ziele/Aims

The aims of the course are
i) to provide students with a thorough understanding of the structure and main themes of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.
ii) To provide students with an awareness of the main critical literature
iii) to develop critical reading skills through intensive engagement with selected texts.
iv) To develop discussion and presentation skills
v) to develop research essay writing skills

Art der Leistungskontrolle/Assessment

i) Attendance at all sessions, preparation of readings and active participation in discussion.
ii) Individual or group presentation on central concepts of the Prison Notebooks, to be decided in consultation with the lecturer. Submission of 2 page presentation outline (20%).
iii) Final research essay - 4000 words (80%)

Written feedback on research essays will be provided by the lecturer.

Literatur/Reading

NB. Students can use the English, German or Italian critical editions of the Prison Notebooks. The English edition currently contains only notebooks 1-8; in the case of texts from other notebooks, the German or Italian editions should be consulted. Further edition and philological information will be distributed prior to the course.

Primary Reading

A. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, translated and edited by Joseph

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab


Ziele/Aims

The aims of the course are
i) to provide students with a thorough understanding of the structure and main themes of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.
ii) To provide students with an awareness of the main critical literature
iii) to develop critical reading skills through intensive engagement with selected texts.
iv) To develop discussion and presentation skills
v) to develop research essay writing skills

Prüfungsstoff

Methoden/Methods

The seminar is run as a 'block seminar'. Attendance at all sessions is obligatory. Students are expected to prepare thoroughly the reading prior to each seminar and to engage actively in seminar discussions. Each seminar will begin with a brief introductory lecture on the historical and political background of Gramsci's writings, and key concepts and themes from the assigned readings. The main mode of work of the seminar will consist in close reading and discussion of the text of the Prison Notebooks, supplemented by reference to the most important critical literature.

Literatur

Literatur/Reading

NB. Students can use the English, German or Italian critical editions of the Prison Notebooks. The English edition currently contains only notebooks 1-8; in the case of texts from other notebooks, the German or Italian editions should be consulted. Further edition and philological information will be distributed prior to the course.

Primary Reading

A. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, translated and edited by Joseph A. Buttigieg, 3 Volumes,
New York: Columbia University, 1992ff. / Gefängnishefte. Herausgegeben von Klaus Bochmann und Wolfgang Fritz Haug, 10 Bände. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1991ff. / Quaderni del carcere, a cura di Valentino Gerratana, Turin: Einaudi, 1975.

A. Gramsci, Letters from Prison, 2 vols, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. / Gefängnisbriefe, Argument-Verlag: Hamburg, 1994ff. / A. Gramsci, Lettere dal carcere, Torino: Einaudi, 1965.

Secondary Reading

Santucci, Antonio A.: Antonio Gramsci, New York: Monthly Review, 2010.

G. Fiori, Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary, London: New Left Books, 1970. /Vita di Antonio Gramsci, Bari: Laterza, 1966

C. Buci-Glucksmann, Gramsci and the State, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. / Gramsci und der Staat. Für eine materialistische Theorie der Philosophie, Köln: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1981. / Gramsci et l'tat: Pour Une Théorie Materialiste de la Philosophie, Paris: Fayard, 1975.

P. Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism, Leiden: Brill, 2009 / Chicago: Haymarket, 2011.

F. Frosini and G. Ligori (eds), Le parole di Gramsci: Per un lessico dei Quaderni del carcere, Roma: Carocci, 2004.

Selected entries from Das historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Argument-Verlag) and Dizionario gramsciano (Carocci)


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