Journal article
Escaping the Throne Room
Abstract
In The Gramscian Moment Peter Thomas fundamentally revises the ‘textbook’ Gramsci – a theorist whose work centred on a primordial East/West distinction, focused on the superstructure, and upon the ways a ruling class secured subaltern consent to its rule. Placing special emphasis on the Notebooks from 1932, Thomas critiques readings of Gramsci by Perry Anderson and Louis Althusser, and finds that Gramsci articulated the ‘philosophy of praxis’ …
Authors
McKay I
Journal
Historical Materialism, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 63–98
Publisher
De Gruyter
DOI
10.1163/1569206x-12341356
ISSN
1465-4466