Gramsci’s Critique of Civil Society Towards a New Concept of Hegemony 1st Edition by Marco Fonseca 1138185876 9781138185876

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• Author:Marco Fonseca

Antonio 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.

Table contents:

1 Rethinking Structures and Superstructures
2 On Moral and Intellectual Reform
3 The Process of Hegemony
4 A Critique of Civil Society
5 War of Position as Counter-Hegemony
6 The Modern Prince Refounding the State

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