Gramsci's Critique of Civil Society
Title | Gramsci's Critique of Civil Society PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Fonseca |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317288270 |
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today. Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis critically dissects the institutions of modern liberal democracy to reveal what is perhaps its deepest secret: it is the most successful political system in modernity at preserving an objective condition of domination while transforming it into a subjective conviction of freedom. Based on a careful reading of Gramsci's The Prison Notebooks, Marco Fonseca shows hegemony as more than leadership of elites over subaltern majorities based on "consent". Following Gramsci’s critique of citizenship, civil society and democracy, including the current project of neoliberal "democracy promotion" particularly in the Global South, he discloses a hidden process of hegemony that generates the preconditions for consent and, thus, successful domination. As the struggles from Zapatismo to Chavismo and from the Arab Springs to Spain’s Podemos show, liberation is not possible without counter-hegemony. This book will be of interest to activist scholars engaged in the study of Marxism, Gramsci, political philosophy, and contemporary debates about the renewal of Marxist thought and the relevance of revolution and Communism for the twenty-first century.
Solidarity Without Borders
Title | Solidarity Without Borders PDF eBook |
Author | Óscar García Agustín |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Civil society |
ISBN | 9780745336268 |
Edited collection on migration and civil society
Antonio Gramsci: Contemporary applications
Title | Antonio Gramsci: Contemporary applications PDF eBook |
Author | James Martin |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN | 9780415217514 |
Film, Politics, and Gramsci
Title | Film, Politics, and Gramsci PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia Landy |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Communism and culture |
ISBN | 9781452901619 |
Gramsci and the State
Title | Gramsci and the State PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Buci-Glucksmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Gramsci's Political Analysis
Title | Gramsci's Political Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | J. Martin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998-06-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230373453 |
In this new introduction to Antonio Gramsci's thought, James Martin reconstructs the central analytical themes of the Italian Marxist's famous Prison Notebooks : the 'organic' intellectuals, the relation between state and civil society, and the revolutionary party. The contemporary relevance of his concept 'hegemony' to the analysis of state legitimacy is critically considered and the limitations of Gramsci's historicist Marxism to understanding social complexity are outlined. The book will be of interest to undergraduates and teachers in the social sciences.
Antonio Gramsci
Title | Antonio Gramsci PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Jones |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2007-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134364113 |
For readers new to Gramsci, Jones presents detailed discussion on the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work.