Hegemony and Revolution

Hegemony and Revolution
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0520050576
ISBN-13 : 9780520050570
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hegemony and Revolution by : Walter L. Adamson

Download or read book Hegemony and Revolution written by Walter L. Adamson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Hegemony and Revolution Related Books

Hegemony and Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Walter L. Adamson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Birth of Hegemony
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Andrew C. Sobel
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge—and are able to create conditions for lasting
Unravelling Gramsci
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Adam Morton
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-20 - Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Unravelling Gramsci makes extensive use of Antonio Gramsci's writings, including his pre-prison journalism, prison letters, and prison notebooks, to provide a f
The Dimensions of Hegemony
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Craig Brandist
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-04 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Though generally associated with the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony had a crucial history in revolutionary Russia where it was used to co
Hegemony and Class Struggle
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Juan Dal Maso
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-24 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci are two of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century. This book explores the similarities and the differences bet