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The Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) developed cultural hegemony to explain the social-control structures of society, arguing that the working-class intelligentsia must generate a working-class ideology to counter the worldview (cultural hegemony) of the ruling class.
Aug 21, 2023 · Dissatisfied with the failures of the revolution in European countries and disillusioned with orthodox Marxists at the time, Antonio Gramsci sought to explain why the revolution wasn’t taking place in advanced capitalist countries and how we could make it happen.
This chapter looks at the concept of hegemony. It examines its range of meaning, reveals its nuances, highlights its ambiguities, draws out its implications, and explains its novelty within the Marxist framework.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion.
Jan 5, 2020 · The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony out of Karl Marx’s theory that the dominant ideology of society reflects the beliefs and interests of the ruling class.
Antonio Gramsci, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to twenty years in prison by the Fascist State. His long and miserable confinement, which re-sulted in his death in 1937, also resulted in one of the most significant contribu-tions to twentieth-century Marxist thought, the theory of "hegemony." Un-
Jun 20, 2014 · Italian Communist thinker, activist, and political leader Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is perhaps the theorist most closely associated with the concept of hegemony.
Jul 7, 2023 · Antonio Francesco Gramsci, most widely known for his theory of hegemony, is a thought leader who has made significant contributions to education, philosophy, and politics. Born in Ales on the island of Sardinia and imprisoned in Italy in 1926, Gramsci died while incarcerated.
Focusing on Gramsci's theory of hegemony, this paper attempts to examine the following questions: 1) How does the bourgeoisie establish and maintain its hegemony in capitalist society and what is the nature and con-tent of the hegemony? 2) Under what conditions does the bourgeoisie still con-tinue to rule despite the crisis of hegemony?
Gramsci's paradoxical concept of hegemony, torn by the two opposite ten-dencies of a radical democracy and a closed society. Because Gramsci wanted to square the circle-instead of making those two extremes negotiating and confronting each other-he tended to be both antiliberal and antidemocratic,
