Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation: Reading Gramsci Today / Panagiotis Sotiris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotiris, Panagiotis, author.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 386.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 386

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the work of Antonio Gramsci, a potential hegemony of the subaltern emerges as an antagonistic practice of politics. This refers to the possibility that, through the resistances, struggles, and collective aspirations of labor, new forms of production can emerge that are egalitarian, sustainable, and democratically coordinated, based on the collective knowledge, experience, and ingenuity of the subaltern. It also refers to the potential for new popular cultures, constantly interacting with high culture, and the reclaiming of everything within it that is emancipatory and critical. Achieving this requires new forms of collective organization conceived as experimental sites for the production of new intellectualities, subjectivities, and strategies.

Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Marxism and Politics: The Open Question

1.1The Critique of Politics in Young Marx

1.2Revolutionary Praxis, Mass, and Politics

1.3Class Struggle and New Practice of Politics

1.4The Question of a New Practice of Politics in the History of Marxism

2 Trajectories of Hegemony in the Work of Gramsci

2.1Hegemony before Gramsci

2.2Gramsci’s First Confrontation with the Question of Hegemony

2.3The Notion of Hegemony in the Prison Notebooks

2.4Readings and Misreadings of Hegemony

2.5The Radical Originality of the Gramscian Theory of Hegemony

2.6Hegemony as Political Practice

3 The Historical Bloc Revisited

3.1From the Sorelian ‘Myth’ to the Historical Bloc

3.2Gramsci’s Elaboration of the Concept of Historical Bloc

3.3A Strategic Notion

4 The Political Practice of Hegemony: Dual Power, War of Movement and War of Position

4.1Dual Power as Condition of Revolutionary Transformation

4.2Discussions of Dual Power within the Marxist Tradition

4.3The Position of Fredric Jameson

4.4The Open Question of a Dual Power Strategy Today

4.5Dual Power and War of Position

4.6New Civility and the Politics of Experimentation

4.7The Future Is Now

5 Revisiting the Passive Revolution

5.1Revisiting Gramsci’s Texts on the Passive Revolution

5.2The Debate around the Passive Revolution

5.3Passive Revolution as Modality and Tendency

6 In Search of the People beyond Populism

6.1Ernesto Laclau on Populism

6.2Left Populism in Contemporary Debates

6.3The Challenge of an Alternative Framework

7 From the Nation to the People of a New Historical Bloc

7.1The Limits of Cosmopolitanism

7.2Balibar on the Question of Citizenship

7.3The Problem with the ‘Neo-Republican’ Defence of the Nation-State

7.4The Colonial Trauma at the Heart of the Nation

7.5Gramsci’s Thinking on the National-Popular

7.6Reconstructing the People

7.7From Popolo-Nazione to the Historical Bloc

8 The Modern Prince as Laboratory of Intellectuality

8.1The Question of Organisation and Political Intellectuality in the History of Marxism

8.2Gramsci and the Challenge of Mass Political Intellectuality

8.3The Question of Organisation Today

Conclusion: The Challenge to Rethink Revolutionary Politics

1The Need for a Return of the Strategic Debate

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Sotiris, Panagiotis Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation: Reading Gramsci Today

ISBN:

9789004762626

OCLC:

1595739364

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004762626 DOI