Gramsci s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives

Kate Crehan

ISBN 10: 0822362392 / ISBN 13: 9780822362395

Published by Duke University Press, 2016

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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. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JPA; JPFC; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gramsci s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822362392
• ISBN 13: 9780822362395
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Presupposing no previous knowledge of Gramsci on the part of the reader, she introduces the Prison Notebooks and provides an overview of Gramsci’s notions of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense, putting them in relation to the work of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Arendt, Spivak, and Said. In the case studies of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, Crehan theorizes the complex relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression, as well as the construction of political narratives. Gramsci's Common Sense is an accessible and concise introduction to a key Marxist thinker whose works illuminate the increasing inequality in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

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.