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Adamson, Walter Luiz was born on February 28, 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Walter and Mariza Adamson.
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They envisioned a brave new world, and what they got was fascism. As vibrant as its counterparts in Paris, Munich, and Milan, the avant-garde of Florence rose on a wave of artistic, political, and social idealism that swept the world with the arrival of the twentieth century. How the movement flourished in its first heady years, only to flounder in the bloody wake of World War I, is a fascinating story, told here for the first time. It is the history of a whole generation's extraordinary promise--and equally extraordinary failure. The "decadentism" of D'Annunzio, the philosophical ideals of Croce and Gentile, the politics of Italian socialism: all these strains flowed together to buoy the emerging avant-garde in Florence. Walter Adamson shows us the young artists and writers caught up in the intellectual ferment of their time, among them the poet Giovanni Papini, the painter Ardengo Soffici, and the cultural critic Giuseppe Prezzolini. He depicts a generation rejecting provincialism, seeking spiritual freedom in Paris, and ultimately blending the modernist style found there with their own sense of toscanità or "being Tuscan." In their journals--Leonardo, La Voce, Lacerba, and l'Italia futurista--and in their cafe life at the Giubbe Rosse, we see the avant-garde of Florence as citizens of an intellectual world peopled by the likes of Picasso, Bergson, Sorel, Unamuno, Pareto, Weininger, and William James. We witness their mounting commitment to the ideals of regenerative violence and watch their existence become increasingly frenzied as war approaches. Finally, Adamson shows us the ultimate betrayal of the movement's aspirations as its cultural politics help catapult Italy into war and prepare the way for Mussolini's rise to power.
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As a result of his inquiry into the nature of class, culture, and the state, Antonio Gramsci became one of the most influential Marxist theorists. Hegemony and Revolution is the first full-fledged study of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in the light of his pre-prison career as a socialist and communist militant and a highly original Marxist intellectual. Walter Adamson shows how Gramsci’s concepts of revolution grew out of his experience with the Turin worker councils of 1919–1920 as well as his experience combatting the Fascist movement. For Gramsci, revolution meant the steady ascension of a mass-based, educated, and organized “collective will,” in which the final seizure of power would be the climax of a broader educative process. Success depended on countering not just the coercive power of the existing economic and political order but also the cultural hegemony of the state. A “counter-hegemony” for Gramsci required the leadership of an organized political party, but at its core lay his conviction that the common people were capable of self-enlightenment and could produce an alternative conception of the world that challenged the prevailing hegemonic culture. Adamson shows how these ideas, which Gramsci developed prior to his imprisonment, led him to a highly original concept of “subaltern” class movements that cohere not just on the basis of economic interest but by virtue of religious, ideological, regional, folkloric, and other sorts of cultural ties as well. These ideas of Gramsci have had enormous influence on a wide variety of subsequent cultural theories including postcolonialism and Foucault-style analyses of discursive practices. Winner of the Society for Italian History’s Howard Marraro Prize, Hegemony and Revolution is an essential resource for scholars of the humanities and social sciences. Walter L. Adamson earned his PhD in the History of Ideas from Brandeis University in 1976. He taught at Whitman College and then at Harvard University as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, after which he joined the Emory University faculty in 1978. At Emory he teaches a variety of courses in modern European intellectual history and Italian history from the Risorgimento forward, with particular attention to fascism, nationalism, and imperialism. He is the former Chair of the Emory History Department. Dr. Adamson has authored a number of books including Marx and the Disillusionment of Marxism; the award-winning Avant-garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism; and Embattled Avant-gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe.
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This book deals with Marxism's value today as primarily an intellectual method that 'teaches us how to interpret social and historical reality, and with relating that interpretation to our current political concerns. Adamson attempts to demonstrate the continuing methodological validity of Marxism through both a return to Marx's texts in the first half of the book, and through examination of methodological developments by neo-Marxist thinkers like Gramsci, Korsch, Lukacs, the Frankfurt school, and others in the second half of the book.
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Adamson, Walter Luiz was born on February 28, 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Walter and Mariza Adamson.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1968; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis U., 1976.
Assistant professor political science, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1975-1977; Mellon fellowship in history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1978; assistant professor of history, Emory University, Atlanta, 1978-1982; associate professor of history, Emory University, Atlanta, 1982-1986; professor of history, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1986; Samuel C. Dobbs professor of intellectual history, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1987.
(This book deals with Marxism's value today as primarily a...)
( As a result of his inquiry into the nature of class, cu...)
( They envisioned a brave new world, and what they got w...)
(Study of Gramsci's political and cultural theory.)
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Member American History Association, American Association Italian Studies, Association for Study of Modern Italy.
Married Lauren Nash Bernstein, June 11,1972. Children: Daniel, Thomas.