Hegemony and Education: Gramsci, Post-Marxism, and Radical Democracy RevisitedHegemony and Education is written in opposition to the displacement of hegemony by recent post-Marxist scholarship from the historical materialist foundations that underpin Antonio Gramsci's own distinctive usage of the concept. The study centers upon the inevitable loss of the nuances of hegemony as a concept that highlights the problem of the pathological reach of a capitalist epistemology and ontology upon human identity. Author Deb J. Hill argues that it was precisely the impress of capitalism's economic and extra-economic aspect upon humanity's own cognitive and moral capacity--upon its relational and valuational capacity--that Gramsci's writings attempted to articulate. In this respect, Gramsci differentiated himself in Marxist circles by the depth of his insights into Marx's historical materialist method and the practical reasoning that this methodology simultaneously engendered. As Hegemony and Education reveals, Gramsci's entire written legacy reflects his historical materialist allegiance: the problem of "education" as no less than the educative-formative problem of practical reasoning. |
Contents
Locating Hegemony against the Tide of Contemporary Struggle | 27 |
Bourgeois Politics and the Poverty of the Public Creative Spirit in Italy A Cognitive and Moral Problem Revealed 19101917 | 69 |
The Integral Politics of the Common Good The Problem of Authoring the Active State 19171918 | 101 |
Labor Leadership and Production Combating Minimal Ideas 19191926 | 135 |
Educating Cognitive and Moral Defiance Historicism and the Dialectic as a New Form of Literacy 19261937 | 165 |
Beyond Democracy as a Limiting Idea Proletarian Hegemony as Neohumanistic Reform | 199 |
Index of PrePrison Articles Examined and Their Sources | 239 |
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