HIS330H5 Chapter Notes -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Spanish Requirement Of 1513
Document Summary
The excerpt from selections from prison notebooks: the intellectuals by antonio gramsci divulges into many different themes and ideas of his. The overall focus is on intellectuals and toward the end on how they contribute to hegemony. Gramsci"s understanding of hegemony is that the state maintains its dominance (and that of social and economic elites) thanks to the consent of those it dominates. Where it does not win consent, this theory suggests, the state resorts to coercion (from. Beasley-murray"s posthegemony: political theory and latin america published in 2011). It starts by discussing the two forms of intellectuals: organic intellectuals and traditional. The main focus appears to be on the latter of the two. Gramsci states that the traditional intellectuals are the intellectuals that already exist and continue to exist throughout history. The focus of the excerpt becomes about who is an intellectual and who isn"t.
