Hegemony and Education Gramsci, Post-Marxism, and Radical Democracy Revisited

by Hill, Deb J.

• ISBN13: 9780739121665
• ISBN10: 0739121669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-21
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Hegemony and Education is a study that explores how the educational insights implicit in Antonio Gramsci's historical materialist outlook have been reconciled to the post-Marxist theory of radical democracy. The author argues that there is an urgent need to redefine the dynamics of hegemony as a theory centering on the problem of cognitive and moral relational and valuational submissiveness; that is, a problem indicative of the pathologies of capitalism with respect to democratic theorizing.

Author Biography

Deb J. Hill is a political philosopher of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: "New Times," Turbulent Times	p. 1
Locating Hegemony against the Tide of Contemporary Struggle	p. 27
Bourgeois Politics and the Poverty of the Public "Creative Spirit" in Italy: A Cognitive and Moral Problem Revealed (1910-1917)	p. 69
The Integral Politics of the "Common Good": The Problem of Authoring the "Active" State (1917-1918)	p. 101
Labor, Leadership, and Production: Combating Minimal Ideas (1919-1926)	p. 135
Educating Cognitive and Moral Defiance: Historicism and the Dialectic as a New Form of Literacy (1926-1937)	p. 165
Beyond Democracy as a Limiting Idea: Proletarian Hegemony as Neohumanistic Reform	p. 199
Index of Pre-Prison Articles Examined and Their Sources	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 263
About the Author	p. 283
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