Beyond class: The many facets of Gramsci’s theory of intellectuals

Olsaretti, Alessandro

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“…A Latin Gandhi would know that social and political movements thrive on song, spectacle, and rhetorical virtuosity [115]. Gramsci knew that the same taste was true for Italy, and he tried to enlist as many artists and educators, priests and journalists, as would join him to shake the country free of a stagnant culture and to create a vibrant consensus for freedom [116].…”

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The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

2022

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“…The proletariat must create a group of ‘independent intellectuals’ from ‘within’ (Gramsci, 1977: 1860–1861). Intellectuals’ social position is a dynamic combination between traditional and organic elements (Olsaretti, 2014: 3–4, 6–9). A class’s ‘own group of independent intellectuals’ cannot all be organic intellectuals.…”

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Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum

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2022

Critical Sociology

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Gramscian scholars have engaged with Gramsci’s leitmotif (‘rhythm of thought’) and the stato integrale (integral state), a concept he introduced in Autumn 1930. This represents remarkable progress in the Marxist community. But what requires further attention is the interconnection between an integral state and a totalitarian one, two of the three expressions of state-society formations that Perry Anderson identified as Gramsci’s antinomies. This article argues that the integral state is fragile but hegemonic if it can be sustained. Otherwise, it can degenerate into a totalitarian state. The article refigures the ‘integral state’ as the ‘integral state-society’. It exists relatively, depending on whether the ‘integral momentum’ or the ‘totalitarian tendency’ prevails in a dynamic interaction between radical Left, Far Right, and those currents in between. Identifying this relativity helps to formulate a deeper understanding of Gramsci’s thought and show how his legacy supports a class struggle perspective on the COVID-19 interregnum.

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Section: Reformation Latin Stylementioning

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Optimism of the Will

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Sacco

2019

Sustainability

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Responding to Max Weber's dour predictions, we enlist Antonio Gramsci's optimism to suggest how culture can spike development. Weber's sociological focus took culture to mean shared beliefs and practices. As a culture that derives from the Protestant Ethic, capitalism waged a "war on pleasure." Weber warned that this unfeeling rationality would generate an "iron cage" to trap our humanity, but his book has been read, paradoxically, as a manual for the lock down. Gramsci, on the contrary, understood culture in its humanistic sense, as a field of aesthetic pleasure, innovation, and debate. For him, a precondition for transformational social change was the broad engagement of masses as empowered collectives (Weber favored charismatic leaders); and pleasure in idiosyncratic forms of artistic as well as rooted expression was the fuel for participating in personal and shared advances. This pleasure in art and collective interpretation contrasts with the exclusionary rituals of commodified pleasure typical of capitalist consumerism. Gramsci's confidence in the transformational role of creative culture provides a framework for understanding a new wave of inclusive artistic practices that originate in the Global South and that revive the arts as vehicles for active citizenship. Participatory art can re-enchant today's sorely disenchanted socio-cultural world of mature capitalism.

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Beyond class: The many facets of Gramsci’s theory of intellectuals

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum

Optimism of the Will

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