Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 254 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0745321127
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0745321135
,
1897071035
,
128172551X
,
1849642028
,
9780745321127
,
9780745321134
,
9781897071038
,
9781281725516
,
9781849642026
Inhalt:
Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant book. Ann Hansen: Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up a cruise-missile component factory, and is the author of Direct Action: The Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla. Gramsci and the concept of hegemony cast a long shadow over radical political theory. Yet how far has this theory got us? Is it still central to feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anarchism, and other radical social movements today? Unlike previous revolutionary movements, Day argues, most contemporary radical social movements do not strive to take control of the state. Instead, they attempt to develop new forms of self-organisation that can run in parallel with -- or as alternatives to -- existing forms of social, political, and economic organization. This is to say that they follow a logic of affinity rather than one of hegemony. This book draws together a variety of different strands in political theory to weave together aninnovative new approach to politics today. Rigorous and wide-ranging, Day introduces and interrogates key concepts. From Hegel's concept of recognition, through theories of hegemony and affinity to Hardt and Negri's reflections on Empire, Day maps academia's theoretical and philosophical concerns onto today's politics of the street. Ideal for all students of political theory, Day's fresh approach combines Marxist, Anarchist and 'Post-structuralist theory to shed new light on the politics and practice of contemporary social' movements
Inhalt:
Doing it yourself : direct-action currents in contemporary radical activism -- Tracking the hegemony of hegemony : classical marxism and liberalism -- Tracking the hegemony of hegemony : postmarxism and the new social movements -- Utopian socialism then-- and now -- Ethics, affinity, and the coming communities -- Conclusion: Utopian socialism again and again
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Day, Richard J.F Gramsci is dead London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press ; Toronto : Between the Lines, 2005
Sprache:
Englisch
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