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Aug 2022
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Episode Two: Francesca Antonini and Gilb...

The Deutscher Prize
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In our second episode, committee member Gilbert Achar is joined by Francesca Antonini to discusses themes from Antonini's 2020 book, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci:  Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity To learn more about the Deutscher Prize, please visit our website: www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/ Thanks to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for helping to fund this initiative: www.lipman-miliband.org.uk

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