Crehan Gramsci's Common Sense

Inequality and Its Narratives
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7374-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crehan, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.