000 02274 a2200385 4500
001 1317288289
005 20250317111613.0
008 250312042016GB eng
020 _a9781317288282
037 _bTaylor & Francis
_cGBP 49.99
_fBB
040 _a01
041 _aeng
072 7 _aQDTS
_2thema
072 7 _aJPFC
_2thema
072 7 _aJPFF
_2thema
072 7 _aJPA
_2thema
072 7 _aQDHR
_2thema
072 7 _aJHBA
_2thema
072 7 _aHPS
_2bic
072 7 _aJPFC
_2bic
072 7 _aJPFF
_2bic
072 7 _aJPA
_2bic
072 7 _aHPCF
_2bic
072 7 _aJHBA
_2bic
072 7 _aPOL000000
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL058000
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL042000
_2bisac
072 7 _a300.1
_2bisac
100 1 _aMarco Fonseca
245 1 0 _aGramsci's Critique of Civil Society
_bTowards a New Concept of Hegemony
250 _a1
260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20160331
300 _a224 p
520 _bAntonio 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.
999 _c5069
_d5069