| CODE | SOC2043 | ||||||
| TITLE | Gramsci, Hegemony and Society | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sociology | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will serve as an introduction to the writings of one of the foremost social and political theorists of the 20th century –Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). His work has had an enormous influence on several fields as this unit will show, including sociology, political science, education, cultural studies and literary theory. The first part of the unit will introduce course participants to major themes in his work, notably Hegemony (ideology, renegotiation and reconstruction, common sense, good sense). Intellectuals, State and Civil Society, Religion (Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam), Culture (popular and ‘highbrow’- impact on cultural studies, subaltern studies with references to Williams, Hall, Hoggart, Guha), Passive Revolution and ‘ Intellectual and Moral Reform,’ Industrial democracy (factory council theory and unions), Language, Literature, The ‘Quistione Meridionale’ (Southern Question). There will be a final focus in the course’s latter part on one aspect of his work, the all pervasive theme of Education conceived of in its broader context and as central to the workings of Hegemony itself. Reading List Set Texts - Mayo, Peter (1999), Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education. Possibilities for Transformative Action, London: Zed Books; also in Italian (2008), Gramsci, Freire e l’educazione degli Adulti, Alessandro Medas trans., Sassari: Carlo Delfino. - Simon, Roger (1991), Gramsci’s Political Thought. An Introduction, London: Lawrence & Wishart. (also available as an e book) Other important readings/excerpts from: - Borg, Carmel, Buttigieg, Joseph A., Mayo, Peter (eds.) (2002), Gramsci and Education, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. - Buttigieg, Joseph, A (2002), ‘on Gramsci’ in Daedalus, Summer, pp. 67-83. - Germino, Dante (1990), Antonio Gramsci. Architect of a New Politics, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. - Gramsci, Antonio (1971), excerpts from Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Quentin. Hoare and Geoffrey. Nowell Smith (eds.), London: Lawrence & Wishart. - Gramsci, Antonio (1975), Q. 1V and XII, Quaderni del Carcere, Valentino Gerratana (Ed.), Turin: Einaudi. - Gramsci, Antonio (1997) le Opere. La prima antologia di tutti gli scritti, Antonio Santucci (ed.), Rome: Editori Riuniti. - Guha, Ranajit (2009), ‘Omaggio ad un Maestro’ in Giancarlo Schirru (ed.) Gramsci, le Culture e il Mondo, Rome: Viella. - Ives, Peter (2004), Language & Hegemony in Gramsci, London: Pluto Press; Halifax Nova Scotia: Fernwood. - Lawner, Lynne (ed.) (1973), Letters from Prison. Antonio Gramsci, New York: The Noonday Press. - Lucente, Gregory L (1997), ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Notes on Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of Literature and Culture’ in Gregory L. Lucente, Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. - Lucente, Gregory L and Lauri Lucente, Gloria (1997), ‘Could you Elaborate on that?’ (Well, Yes, No). The Use and Abuse of Gramsci in Said, Spivak and Recent Cultural Studies’ in Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. - Mayo, Peter (ed.) (2010) Gramsci and Educational Thought, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. - Mayo, Peter. (2007)’Gramsci, The ‘ Southern Question’ and the Mediterranean’ in Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 1-17; also published in Italian as a chapter. ‘Gramsci, la “Quistione Meridionale” e il Mediterraneo’ in Giancarlo Schirru (ed.) Gramsci, le Culture e il Mondo (Viella, Rome, 2009), pp. 209-224; and forthcoming in German version in Das Argument. - Verdicchio, Pasquale(trans.) (1995) The Southern Question, West Lafayette: Bordighera Inc. - Schirru, Giancarlo (ed.)(2009) Gramsci, le Culture e il Mondo, Rome: Viella. - Showstack, Sassoon, Anne (2009), ‘Gramsci, Williams, Hall e noi’ in Schirru, Giancarlo (ed.)(2009) Gramsci, le Culture e il Mondo, Rome: Viella. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Peter Mayo |
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