The modern Prince: Gramsci's reading of Machiavelli

• Autores: P. Thomas
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 38, Nº 3, 2017, págs. 523-544
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Gramsci's 'modern Prince' has often been interpreted in relation to his theory of political parties. According to this reading, Gramsci was constrained by carceral censorship to use this Machiavellianmetaphor as a 'codeword'. This interpretation has tended to direct attention away from the novelty of Gramsci's reading of The Prince in the Prison Notebooks. This article argues that a contextualist and diachronic reading of the development of the figure of the modern Prince allows it to be understood as also a novel contribution to the Machiavelli scholarship of Gramsci's time and the tradition of 'democratic' readings of The Prince.