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Engels's writings on revolution and on the concept of democracy. Nevertheless, Texier's workshould be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand Gramsci's views on the 19thcentury which are the core of his understanding of revolutionary processes. It would, in fact, beaccurate to say that this study constitutes a Gramscian reading of Marx and Engels.Giuseppe Vacca. Appuntamenti con Gramsci. Rome: Carocci Editore, , 1999.This work is conceived as an introduction to the study of the Quaderni. Relying heavily on achronological analysis of Gramsci's work, Vacca looks at the evolution of Gramsci's thought as anprogressively radical repudiation of the direction in which the communist movement was beingguided by Stalin. Vacca sets out to demonstrate that in Gramsci one finds a profound re-thinking ofthe Marxist tradition—so profound, in fact, that in the course of his exposition Vacca makesGramsci appear to be a precursor of neo-liberlism or, at least, of "third way" politics.CONTENTS:Introduzione: Egemonia e democraziaI. 1926-1937: la linea d'ombra nei rapporti con il Comintern e il partitoII. Togliatti editore delle Lettere e dei QuaderniIII. L'interpretazione dei Quaderni nel dopoguerraIV. La "quistione politica degli intellettuali" e la concezione dello Stato. Nomenclatura dei QuaderniV. L'anilisi dell'URSS stalinianaVI. La politica come egemoniaThe Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXIX, nos. 3-4, (Spring-Summer 1998), is a special issue on"Antonio Gramsci: Philosophy, Politics, and Culture" compiled by guest editor Benedetto Fontana.In addition to a brief introduction by Fontana, it contains the following aricles:Renato Zangheri: "Notes on Gramsci and the Twentieth Century"Benedetto Fontana: "Politics, Philosophy, and Modernity in Gramsci"Maurice A. Finocchiaro: "Democracy, Philosophy, and Gramsci"Richard Bellamy: "Gramsci and Walzer on the Intellectual as Social Critic"Joseph V. Femia: "Gramsci and the Question of Transformation"Nadia Urbinati: "Detecting Democratic Modernity: Antonio Gramsci on Individualism and Equality"Dante Germino and Meindert Fennema: "Antonio Gramsci on the Culture of Violence and its Overturning"Anne Showstack Sassoon: "Family, Civil Society, State: Is Gramsci's Concept of società civile still relevant?"Kate Crehan: "'A Vague Passion for a Vague Proletarian Culture': An Anthropologist Reads Gramsci"Mauro Pala: "Gramsci's Spelling of Keywords: From Williams' and Gramsci's Theories of Language to CulturalHegemony"Robert S. Dombroski: "A Note on Gramsci and Literature"— 39 —