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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
01 Jan 2015-
TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
Abstract: Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman
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Abstract: The influence of liberal political ideology on nursing science
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...Demetriou (2001) articulates theoretical inconsistencies and suggests that the hegemonic form should have more interaction and negotiation with other masculinities rather than being seen in purely dominative terms, more in line with Gramsci’s conception of hegemony (Gramsci 1971)....
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...Gramsci (1971) argues that cultural beliefs attempt to naturalize positions of power such that those in a hegemonic position define legitimate discourse, or push a version of reality onto others, through “the use of popular cultural construction” (Hall 2002, 37)....
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