Antonio Gramsci

✍ Scribed by Steven Jones

• Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies 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. Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here include:
* culture
* hegemony
* intellectuals
* crisis
* Americanization.

Gramsci's work invites people to think beyond simplistic oppositions by recasting ideological domination as hegemony: the ability of a ruling power's values to live in the minds and lives of its subalterns as a spontaneous expression of their own interests
Is power simply a matter of domination and resistance? Can a ruling power be vulnerable? Can subordinates find their resitance neutralized? and What is the role of culture in this? These questions, and many more are tackled here in this invaluable introduction to Gramsci.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
WHY GRAMSCI?......Page 14
KEY IDEAS......Page 24
1 GRAMSCI’S POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 26
2 CULTURE......Page 40
3 HEGEMONY......Page 54
4 HEGEMONY IN PRACTICE 1: IDENTITY......Page 70
5 HEGEMONY IN PRACTICE 2: REPRESENTATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS......Page 82
6 INTELLECTUALS......Page 94
7 CRISIS......Page 108
8 AMERICANISM AND FORDISM......Page 122
AFTER GRAMSCI?......Page 134
FURTHER READING......Page 148
WORKS CITED......Page 154
A,B......Page 162
F......Page 163
I......Page 164
N......Page 165
S......Page 166
Y,Z......Page 167

✦ Subjects

Gramsci, Antonio: 1891-1937; Philosophers: Italy: Biography; Gramsci, Antonio: 1891-1937