Gramsci e Laclau: l’egemonia dalla classe al popolo?

Gramsci and His Views

Dr. D avidson’s book, w hich is in fact a fusion of his own ideas w ith the Ita lian philosopher Gramsci, w ill m ake in teresting reading for m ost com m unists and those of the left who are genuinely in terested in radical social change. I t w ill be appreciated by m any ran k and file communists, in particu lar, as the first real work to give a guide to the Ita lian style m arxism and the p ...

Ragionamento Dipendente Dalla Percezione E Answer Set Perception-dependent Reasoning and Answer Sets

SOMMARIO/ABSTRACT La domanda che sottende il presente lavorò e la seguente: comè e possibile descrivere il ragionamento di un agente in presenza di eventuali errori di percezione? In questo articolo si tenta di fornire una risposta a tale domanda, af-frontando il problema nel contesto della Programmazione Logica Estesa. Il lavoro presenta pertanto una nuova semantica, che estende la ormai conso...

Cylindri al Surfa e Pasting

Political Agency in Dewey and in Laclau and Mouffe

In a condensed moment quite typical of the overstated bombast appropriate to a philosopher who was in his heart very much a metaphysician, Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that, “The creation of the world . . . is the victory of persuasion over force” (1933, 90). The metaphysics of Whitehead was a metaphysics of process, one variant of what I have called elsewhere a philosophy of transitions.1...

The Roots of Domination: Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci

In this article I examine Bourdieu’s conception of symbolic domination as based on misrecognition and compare it with Gramsci’s notion of hegemony based on consent. Drawing on ethnographic research in workplaces in the USA and Hungary I show how both theories are flawed. Gramsci does not appreciate the importance of mystification as a foundation for stable hegemony in advanced capitalism while ...