Kate Crehan

Gramsci's Common Sense

Inequality and Its Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

Kate Crehan applies Antonio Gramsci's concepts of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense to offer new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take and the relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression as well as the construction of political narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362395
• ISBN-10: 0822362392
• Artikelnr.: 44521264

Autorenporträt

Kate Crehan is Professor Emerita, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective and Gramsci, Culture, and Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Abbreviations  xv
Part I. Subalternity, Intellectuals, and Common Sense
1. Subalternity  3
2. Intellectuals  18
3. Common Sense  43
4. What Subalterns Know  59
Part II. Case Studies
5. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois, Organic Intellectual?  81
6. The Common Sense of the Tea Party  118
7. Common Sense, Good Sense, and Occupy  146
Conclusion. Reading Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century  184
Bibliography  199
Index  207