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OverviewThis book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in the context of present-day critical and socio-cultural debate. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was far ahead of his time in offering a theory of art, politics and cultural production which engages these issues at a high level of practical and theoretical concern. She takes stock of Gramsci's achievement with particular reference to the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Bloch, Habermas) and to Brecht's theoretical writings. She also discusses Gramsci's writing in relation to thinkers in the phenomenological tradition - especially Merleau-Ponty - an angle which has so far received little attention from Anglo-American commentators. She also has some strikingly original points to make about Gramsci's continuing relevance at a time of widespread retreat from Marxist positions among those on the postmodern left. Differential pragmatics' - in Holub's suggestive phrase - is a theory of cultural production and critique derivable from Gramsci's writings with the benefit of other, more recent ideas, like Habermas's theory of communicative action and the insights of feminist criticism. Her book is distinguished by its range of philophical grasp, its depth of specialized historical scholarship, and - above all - its keen sense of Gramsci's position as a crucial figure in the politics of contemporary cultural theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Renate HolubPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780415021081ISBN 10: 0415021081 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 07 May 1992 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart I INTRODUCTION 1 Gramsci and critical theories: towards a ‘differential pragmatics’ Part II FROM REALISM TO MODERNISM 2 To realism farewell: Gramsci, Lukics and Marxist aesthetics 3 The industrialization of culture: Gramsci with Benjamin, Brecht and the Frankfurt School 4 Gramsci’s theory of consciousness: between alienation, reification and Bloch’s ‘principle of hope’ 5 Phenomenology, linguistics, hegemony Part III BEYOND THE MODERN, BEYOND THE POSTMODERN 6 Grams & intellectual and the age of information technology, The adventures of a concept in Gramsci’s texts ‘Mode of production’ and ‘mode of information’.ReviewsSassoon amply demonstrates the utility of political theory, particularly Gramsci's thought, in this collection. <br>-A.B. Cochran, Choice <br> Author InformationRenate Holub (Author) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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