The Sociology of Political Praxis (RLE: Gramsci)

The Sociology of Political Praxis (RLE: Gramsci)
Author: Leonardo Salamini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317744292

This volume analyses the philosophical nature of Gramsci’s Marxism and its Hegelian source, the radical critique of the economistic tradition and the original analyses of the role of superstructures, ideology, consciousness and subjectivity in the revolutionary process. It relates the central themes of Gramsci’s writings, such as hegemony, ‘historical blocs’, the role of intellectuals and political praxis, to the more peripheral ones, such as science, language, literature and art. The introduction includes a brief intellectual biography of Gramsci.

The Sociology of Political Praxis (RLE: Gramsci)

The Sociology of Political Praxis (RLE: Gramsci)
Author: Leonardo Salamini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317744284

This volume analyses the philosophical nature of Gramsci’s Marxism and its Hegelian source, the radical critique of the economistic tradition and the original analyses of the role of superstructures, ideology, consciousness and subjectivity in the revolutionary process. It relates the central themes of Gramsci’s writings, such as hegemony, ‘historical blocs’, the role of intellectuals and political praxis, to the more peripheral ones, such as science, language, literature and art. The introduction includes a brief intellectual biography of Gramsci.

Defiant Sounds

Defiant Sounds
Author: Nelson Varas-Díaz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2023-03-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1793651868

Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.

Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: Gramsci)

Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: Gramsci)
Author: Chantal Mouffe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317744373

This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci’s thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the principal viewpoints regarding Gramsci’s theoretical contribution to Marxism, focussing in particular on his advances in the study of the superstructures, and discussing his relation to Marx and Lenin and his influence in Eurocommunism. Different interpretations are put forward concerning the elucidation of Gramsci’s key concepts, namely: hegemony, integral state, war of position and passive revolution.

Praxis and Method (RLE: Gramsci)

Praxis and Method (RLE: Gramsci)
Author: Richard Kilminster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317744403

This sociological critique of the ‘philosophy of praxis’ looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukács, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel, and explores the validity and implications for sociology of two of Marx’s ideas which the later theorists made the centre piece of their social theory: first, that true theory is authenticated by praxis, and second, its corollary that certain major social transformations should and would in practice render sociology redundant.

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Madan Sarup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136460659

This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an account of the strengths and weaknesses of these perspectives, drawing on a variety of disciplines in order to explain the controversies described. The opening chapters deal with the phenomenological perspective in the sociology of education, discussing its adoption of a phenomenological model of man, its use of anthropological studies, the importance of classroom studies, and its rejection of the ‘liberal’ philosophy of education. The aim is to show the significance of these ideas for education, with a discussion of the concept of alienation and schooling, developments in Marxism such as the focus on the mode of production and the labour process, and the political economy of education.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (RLE Marxism)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (RLE Marxism)
Author: Cecil L. Eubanks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317503538

The project to publish the works of Marx and Engels continues, and this book, published in 1984, puts together a comprehensive bibliography of their works either written in or translated into English, including books, monographs, articles, chapters and doctoral dissertations, together with the works of their interpreters. The inclusion of the secondary literature makes this a particularly valuable bibliography, and contributes greatly to the understanding of the thought of Marx and Engels.

Marx and Wittgenstein

Marx and Wittgenstein
Author: Gavin Kitching
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134538545

At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.

On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time

On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time
Author: Elisabeth Sussman
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1989
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

These photographs, essays, drawings, and original texts document the rich agit-art legacy of the Situationist International, a group of European artists and writers who emerged from such avant-garde movements as COBRA, Lettrisme, and the Imaginary Bauhaus and from the breakup of surrealism to launch a strategy of art as cultural critique.