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Gramsci on Civil Society
Social critics often invoke Antonio Gramsci's concept of civil society when examining the results of the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe. Gramsci's approach to the analysis of civil society is much more valuable as a tool for exploring the present condition of civil society in different parts of the globe.
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On Gramsci
There is no significant phase of Antonio Gramsci's life, political activity, and writing in which some aspect or another of educational theory and practice does not figure prominently. Gramsci is profiled.
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Antonio Gramsci
\"Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual biography of the great Sardinian scholar and revolutionary. Gramscian terms such as 'civil society' and 'hegemony' are much used in everyday political discourse. Santucci warns us, however, that these words have been appropriated by both radicals and conservatives for contemporary and often self-serving ends that often have nothing to do with Gramsci's purposes in developing them. Rather what we must do, and what Santucci illustrates time and again in his dissection of Gramsci's writings, is absorb Gramsci's methods.\" -- Publisher description.
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From the 'Prison Notebooks'
An excerpt from \"Prison Notebooks\" is presented. The excerpt deals with education theory and intelligence.
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Edward Said, 1935-2003
Presents a tribute to literary scholar & prominent public intellectual Edward W. Said, who died 24 Sept 2003. Said's groundbreaking Orientalism (1978) is described, along with the many books that followed; his boyhood in Cairo; his identification with the Palestinians' quest for the restoration of their homeland; & his effort to reconnect with the Arab world. Special attention is given to both the impact on Said's work of the thinking of 18th-century philosopher Giambattista Vico & the oppositional nature of Said's literary critiques. It is noted that Said defied the mentality of labels & used his intellect to oppose the status quo he viewed as unfairly weighted against disadvantaged groups. His fierce stands & intellectual honesty earned him numerous political & professional enemies from both the Right & Left. Said saw the intellectual as \"neither a pacifier nor a consensus-builder, but someone.unwilling to accept easy formulas, or ready-made cliches, or the smooth, ever-so-accommodating confirmations of what the powerful or conventional have to say.\". 8 References. J. Lindroth
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Is the struggle for human rights a struggle for emancipation?
The human rights movement was not inspired by Marx & Engels's Communist Manifesto; however, it answers the call made in the Manifesto for the development of an international movement to fight injustice. This paper uses the Manifesto to analyze the work of the human rights movement. It gives particular attention to two campaigns recently enacted by Human Rights Watch. Despite the underlying similarities between the Manifesto & the goals of Human Rights Watch, several distinct differences are evident. For example, Human Rights Watch has employed a restrictive, legalistic approach, one that fails to consider the socioeconomic aspect of oppression. In addition, Human Rights Watch has ignored the necessity for action at the grassroots level. According to Marx, this dependence on laws will produce inadequate results. Marx's critique of rights is also examined. 37 References. K. A. Larsen
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Teaching English and Developing a Critical Knowledge of the Global
Buttigieg explores some of the ways to better understand the growing use of the English language around the world, known as \"global English.\" For some, the spread of the language means increased communication and understanding, others, however, feel that global English will erase cultures and replace diversity with sameness.
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Philology and Politics: Returning to the Text of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci's \"Quaderni del carcere\" (Prison Notebooks) reveal the full extent of Gramsci's engagement with the political, social, cultural, philosophical, religious and economic issues of his time. The significance of Gramsci's notebooks and the importance of philological accuracy in them are disucssed.
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