The contemporary discourse on civil society: A gramscian critique

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-52

  Buttigieg, Joseph A ^a  

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EID: 34248041659     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: 15272141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Arundhati Roy, "Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates," The Guardian, April 2, 2003.
2. Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, and Marlies Glasius, "Global Civil Society in an Era of Regressive Globalisation," in Global Civil Society 2003, ed. Kaldor, Anheier, and Glasius (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 3-4.
3. The text of this volume is obtainable in PDF format from the following Web site: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Yearbook/outline2003.htm.
4. Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992), vii.
5. Cohen and Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory, 147 and 159.
6. Cohen and Arato, it appears, confuse or conflate what Gramsci and Marx wrote on the topic. Marx was contemptuous of bourgeois society ("bürgerliche Gesellschaft"), which is a quite different phenomenon than what Gramsci refers to as civil society ("società civile"). For a thorough and meticulous clarification of this not uncommon confusion, see Jan Rehmann, "'Abolition' of Civil Society? Remarks on a Widespread Misunderstanding in the Interpretation of 'Civil Society,'" Socialism and Democracy 13, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1989): 1-18.
7. Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor, eds., Global Civil Society 2001 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 13.
8. Anheier, Glasius, and Kaldor, eds., Global Civil Society 2001, 13-14. The authors do not cite the specific passage or passages where Gramsci is supposed to have affirmed that "civil society is the non-state. . . ."
9. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York: International Publishers, 1971), 263. This passage is in Notebook 6, §88.
10. See Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Gramsci and the State, trans. David Fernbach (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1980), esp. chap. 3
11. "The Gramscian Expansion of the Concept of the State," 69-110.
12. For the quotations from the Prison Notebooks, I have provided the notebook (Q) and section (§) numbers that would enable the reader to locate them quickly in the Italian critical edition, Quaderni del carcere, 4 vols., ed. Valentino Gerratana (Tutin: Einaudi, 1975), as well as in other existing editions in various languages.
13. A concordance (by Marcus Green) of the Italian critical edition and Anglophone anthologies of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is available on the International Gramsci Society Web site: http://www.italnet.nd.edu/gramsci/.
14. My translation. For a complete text of the letter, see Antonio Gramsci, Letters from Prison, vol. 2, ed. Frank Rosengarten, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 65-68.
15. John Keane, "Global Civil Society?" in Global Civil Society 2001, 29 and 31.
16. The dossier is entitled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It," issued by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), written by Jerry I. Martin and Anne D. Neal. The report was published by ACTA in November 2001 and can be found at ACTA's Web site: http://www.goacta.org/.
17. L. Frances Bouchey et al., Santa Fe II: A Strategy for the Nineties (Washington, D.C.: Council for Inter-American Security, 1989), 10-11.
18. Michael Novak, "The Gramscists Are Coming" Forbes, March 20, 1989, 54.
19. Rush Limbaugh, See, I Told You So (New York: Pocket Books, 1993), 87.
20. The interview was published in Komsomolskaya Pravda in September 1992 and reproduced in Italian translation in L'Unità, October 1, 1992.
21. Patrick J. Buchanan, The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002), 76, 78.
22. John Fonte, "Why There Is a Culture War: Gramsci and Tocqueville in America," Policy Review, no. 104 (December 2000 and January 2001): 15-16.
23. John Fonte, "Gramsci's Revenge: Reconstructing American Democracy," Academic Questions 13, no 2 (Spring 2000): 50.
24. Some of the ideas elaborated in this essay were first sketched in a short article, "Per la patria e la bandiera," which was published in the Italian monthly La Rivista del Manifesto, no. 39 (May 2003): 24-27.