Beyond Right and Left : Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci /

Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book-the first systematic study of the connection...

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Main Author: Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1942- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Series:Italian Literature and Thought
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction: Right, Left, and Classic Approaches to Gramsci --   |t One. Gramsci as a Political Theorist: Back to Mosca --   |t Two. Moscas Political Science: Democratic Elitism and Balanced Pluralism --   |t Three. Gramsci on Mosca: Methodological and Theoretical Criticism --   |t Four. Gramsci's Elitism: An Extension of Mosca's Law --   |t Five. Gramsci's Democracy: An Application of Moscas Concept --   |t Six. Liberalism And Anti-Liberalism In Mosca and Gramsci --   |t Seven. Mosca and Gramsci on Freemasonry and Fascism: An Emblematic Case --   |t Conclusion Beyond Right and Left --   |t Appendix Concordance of the Critical Edition and English Translations --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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