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Introduction. The three concepts discussed herein constitute perhaps the most important components of Gramsci’s “philosophy of praxis.” For one thing, the three concepts represent the earliest elaborations on the foundations of class power, addressing the latter from the point of view of superstructural as well as infrastructural considerations.
Mar 25, 2014 · Gramsci and hegemony Gramsci introduces the concept of hegemony, or ideological and moral leadership of society, to explain how the ruling-class maintains their dominance and influence over society. He argues that in order to overcome hegemony, the proletariat must develop its own ‘counter-hegemony’ to win leadership of society.
This video concerns the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony. It asks one basic question: why do the powerless consent to be dominated by t...
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Feb 5, 2018 · At the trial of Antonio Gramsci in 1928, the prosecutor declared: “We must stop this brain from working for 20 years.” Gramsci , the former leader of the Italian Communist Party and a gifted Marxist theoretician and journalist, was sentenced to two decades’ imprisonment by Benito Mussolini’s fascist government.
Feb 5, 2024 · Hegemony would in this sense represent a process of constructive interference between soft and hard power. This reading is in line with Gramsci’s usage of hegemony as a parent category to both ‘domination’ and ‘leadership’, i.e. a dialectic synthesis of the two.
A full analysis of Gramsci's controversial notion of hegemony, and of the even more controversial interpretations attempted by scholars since the publication of Gramsci's Notebooks, is beyond the scope of this essay. It is difficult, however, to avoid the temptation to trace the "troubles" in Gramsci's
The Gramsci Institute Foundation: The Gramsci Institute Foundation was founded in 1982, on the basis of the pre-existent Gramsci Institute, born in 1949 with the aim to collect bibliographic and archival materials concerning Antonio Gramsci’s profile and thought, the history of Italian labour and socialist movements, the history of the ...
