This study delineates the use of cultural hegemony in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) through the vantage points of Italian critic Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who clarifies domination of the ruling class over ruled class. Cultural hegemony is the mastery of the middle class and governing groups among the lower divisions. Antonio Gramsci declares that the only means of keeping cult...

Recently there have been several attempts to arrive at a more precise understanding of the relationship between Marxism and psychology. These have been notable in that they have been informed by Althusserian treatments of Marxism rather than orthodox Freudian or Lacanian themes. Such treatments, it is argued, entail the complete eradication of any notion of subjectivity. The following analyses ...

The concept of cultural hegemony is notoriously difficult. As it is presented in Gramsci’s original writings, hegemony is a cluster of several ideas, insights, and suggestions (see Adamson, 1980; Bates, 1975; Howson & Smith, 2008; G. A. Williams, 1960). This is hardly surprising. One had to remind that the notion was developed to explain very specific historical processes in post-WWI Europe. Re...

Monetary policy rule might be helpful to avoid the problem of time inconsistency provided there is a commitment to the rule. The commitment is the ability of a government to bind future policies. However, it doesn’t include intrinsic motivations. Therefore, hegemony, which includes both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, better solves the problem of  time inconsistency. In this paper, we expl...

Diagnostic Sedition: Re-Considering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD To cite this article: Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD (2016) Diagnostic Sedition: ReConsidering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 37:2, 125-130 To link to this article: http://d...

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 ...

This paper focuses on hegemony and its outcomes on international relations. A theoretical review of academic literature will be combined with an analysis of hegemony’s features and related policies in the contemporary international system. In the first part of the paper, I will look at the three schools of thought that offered the main theoretical frameworks to explain hegemony: long-cycle theo...