Benedetto Fontana
Biographic Data
| ID | 270767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedetto Fontana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedetto |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontana |
| SIGNATURE | FONTANA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hegemony
Hegemony delineates a particular relation between force and consent which together exist in an unstable equilibrium. Since the ancient Greeks, hegemony has shown a tendency to degenerate into empire, consent into force. Yet these two presuppose one another, and one cannot exist without the other. Force as pure violence is inherently unstable. What is required is an “economy of violence,” to use Sheldon Wolin's felicitous phrase, which is only pos…
Antonio Gramsci, Come alla volontà piace
The year 2017 is the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It was generally considered the most important historical event of the “short” (as defined by Hobsbawm) twentieth century. The world had
Machiavelli’s Gospel
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Philosophy and Rhetoric in Vico’s Thought
Vico’s thought is an attempt to discover a method, that is, a new science, whereby rhetoric and philosophy, politics and knowledge, would complement and inform one another. His method refuses to subordinate one to the other, and sees both as necessary to each other. At the same time, it understands the relation between philosophy and rhetoric in historical and social terms, and investigates the manner in which the former emerges from the other, s…
Intellectuals and Masses
Maurizio Viroli, As If God Existed
The Concept of Caesarism in Gramsci
In Western political thought Caesarism, whether associated with, or subsumed under, its various cognate concepts such as tyranny, dictatorship, and Bonapartism, has had a durable and contradictory history. From the perspective of the history of ideas, the emergence and development of the bundle of ideas described by the term Caesarism is more than an intellectual attempt to formulate categories capable of capturing and characterizing it as a poli…
The Concept of Nature in Gramsci
The compound republic and popular politics
Politics and history in Gramsci
The work of historian John Cammett underlines the intimate relation that Gramsci establishes among thought, history and politics. Gramsci's political thought is an extended discourse on the relation between party and class, and on the formation of hegemonic and subaltern forms of consciousness. Reading Cammett highlights Gramsci's passion for a politics that would renovate and remake the world. Both Gramsci and Cammett looked within the existing …
Political space and hegemonic power in Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s political thought focusses on power, hegemony, and domination. This article attempts to delineate the close and intimate relationship in Gramsci between political power and political space. It argues that political space is a central ingredient in his understanding of hegemony and civil society
Partiti politici in Italia. Da Forza Italia al Partito democratico
La filosofia della rivoluzione Gramsci, la cultura e la guerra Europea
Liberty and Domination
Research Article| May 01 2006 Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci Benedetto Fontana Benedetto Fontana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 51–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benedetto Fontana; Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci. boundary 2 1 May 2006; 33 (2): 51–…
Reason and Politics
Research Article| February 01 2006 Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People Benedetto Fontana Benedetto Fontana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 7–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benedetto Fontana; Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People. boundary 2 1 February 20…
The Democratic Philosopher
The Democratic Philosopher
Gramsci on Politics and State
This article argues that Gramsci's notion of the state is historically and conceptually rooted within a political and theoretical discourse that first emerged with the ideas and practice of the classical politics of the Greeks and Romans, a political and philosophical tradition that was later transformed and reformulated with the advent of a Christianized politics as embodied in the thought of Augustine. The article further argues that Gramsci's …
Logos and Kratos
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 61, Number 2, April 2000
Love of Country and Love of God
Love of Country and Love of God: The Political Uses of Religion in Machiavelli Benedetto Fontana* This paper will discuss the place of religion in Machiavelli's thought. 1 The traditional and generally accepted interpretation presents Machiavelli's religion as a belief system whose value is determined by its functional utility to the state. In this he is said to resemble Cicero, 2 Montesquieu, 3 and Tocqueville, 4 among others. This view is based…
Liberty and Domination
Research Article| May 01 2006 Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci Benedetto Fontana Benedetto Fontana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 51–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benedetto Fontana; Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci. boundary 2 1 May 2006; 33 (2): 51–…
Gramsci on Politics and State
This article argues that Gramsci's notion of the state is historically and conceptually rooted within a political and theoretical discourse that first emerged with the ideas and practice of the classical politics of the Greeks and Romans, a political and philosophical tradition that was later transformed and reformulated with the advent of a Christianized politics as embodied in the thought of Augustine. The article further argues that Gramsci's …
Political space and hegemonic power in Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s political thought focusses on power, hegemony, and domination. This article attempts to delineate the close and intimate relationship in Gramsci between political power and political space. It argues that political space is a central ingredient in his understanding of hegemony and civil society
The Democratic Philosopher
Love of Country and Love of God
Love of Country and Love of God: The Political Uses of Religion in Machiavelli Benedetto Fontana* This paper will discuss the place of religion in Machiavelli's thought. 1 The traditional and generally accepted interpretation presents Machiavelli's religion as a belief system whose value is determined by its functional utility to the state. In this he is said to resemble Cicero, 2 Montesquieu, 3 and Tocqueville, 4 among others. This view is based…
Politics and history in Gramsci
The work of historian John Cammett underlines the intimate relation that Gramsci establishes among thought, history and politics. Gramsci's political thought is an extended discourse on the relation between party and class, and on the formation of hegemonic and subaltern forms of consciousness. Reading Cammett highlights Gramsci's passion for a politics that would renovate and remake the world. Both Gramsci and Cammett looked within the existing …
La filosofia della rivoluzione Gramsci, la cultura e la guerra Europea
Love of Country and Love of God
Love of Country and Love of God: The Political Uses of Religion in Machiavelli Benedetto Fontana* This paper will discuss the place of religion in Machiavelli's thought. 1 The traditional and generally accepted interpretation presents Machiavelli's religion as a belief system whose value is determined by its functional utility to the state. In this he is said to resemble Cicero, 2 Montesquieu, 3 and Tocqueville, 4 among others. This view is based…
Logos and Kratos
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 61, Number 2, April 2000
Gramsci on Politics and State
This article argues that Gramsci's notion of the state is historically and conceptually rooted within a political and theoretical discourse that first emerged with the ideas and practice of the classical politics of the Greeks and Romans, a political and philosophical tradition that was later transformed and reformulated with the advent of a Christianized politics as embodied in the thought of Augustine. The article further argues that Gramsci's …
The Democratic Philosopher
The Democratic Philosopher
Liberty and Domination
Research Article| May 01 2006 Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci Benedetto Fontana Benedetto Fontana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 51–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benedetto Fontana; Liberty and Domination: Civil Society in Gramsci. boundary 2 1 May 2006; 33 (2): 51–…
Reason and Politics
Research Article| February 01 2006 Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People Benedetto Fontana Benedetto Fontana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 7–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Benedetto Fontana; Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People. boundary 2 1 February 20…
Partiti politici in Italia. Da Forza Italia al Partito democratico
La filosofia della rivoluzione Gramsci, la cultura e la guerra Europea
Political space and hegemonic power in Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s political thought focusses on power, hegemony, and domination. This article attempts to delineate the close and intimate relationship in Gramsci between political power and political space. It argues that political space is a central ingredient in his understanding of hegemony and civil society
Politics and history in Gramsci
The work of historian John Cammett underlines the intimate relation that Gramsci establishes among thought, history and politics. Gramsci's political thought is an extended discourse on the relation between party and class, and on the formation of hegemonic and subaltern forms of consciousness. Reading Cammett highlights Gramsci's passion for a politics that would renovate and remake the world. Both Gramsci and Cammett looked within the existing …
The Concept of Nature in Gramsci
The compound republic and popular politics
The Concept of Caesarism in Gramsci
In Western political thought Caesarism, whether associated with, or subsumed under, its various cognate concepts such as tyranny, dictatorship, and Bonapartism, has had a durable and contradictory history. From the perspective of the history of ideas, the emergence and development of the bundle of ideas described by the term Caesarism is more than an intellectual attempt to formulate categories capable of capturing and characterizing it as a poli…
Intellectuals and Masses
Maurizio Viroli, As If God Existed
Philosophy and Rhetoric in Vico’s Thought
Vico’s thought is an attempt to discover a method, that is, a new science, whereby rhetoric and philosophy, politics and knowledge, would complement and inform one another. His method refuses to subordinate one to the other, and sees both as necessary to each other. At the same time, it understands the relation between philosophy and rhetoric in historical and social terms, and investigates the manner in which the former emerges from the other, s…
Antonio Gramsci, Come alla volontà piace
The year 2017 is the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It was generally considered the most important historical event of the “short” (as defined by Hobsbawm) twentieth century. The world had
Machiavelli’s Gospel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hegemony
Hegemony delineates a particular relation between force and consent which together exist in an unstable equilibrium. Since the ancient Greeks, hegemony has shown a tendency to degenerate into empire, consent into force. Yet these two presuppose one another, and one cannot exist without the other. Force as pure violence is inherently unstable. What is required is an “economy of violence,” to use Sheldon Wolin's felicitous phrase, which is only pos…
Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political theory and Gramsci (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (7 works) · Hegemony (7 works)