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IR2501THEORIES OF
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Lecture 15Gramscian Theory
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Antonio Gramsci(1891-1937)
• Founder of the Communist Party of Italy (1921)
• Elected to the Italian Parliament (1924)
• Imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist Government in 1926
• Principal work: Quaderni de Carcere—Prison Notebooks (1929-1935)
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Intellectual Roots
• Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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Philosophy
• Radical social ontology—an ontology of praxis, an understanding of social reality as the conscious creation of human history
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Philosophy(Continued)
• Gramsci: Reality is a product of the application of human will to the society of things, and this process of producing reality entails the historical transformation of human beings and their social lives.
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TWO PRINCIPAL SOURCES
• MARXISM
• ITALIAN PHILOSOPHY
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Conventional Marxist Model
SUPERSTRUCTURE
BASE
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Major Elements of Gramscian Theory
• Critique of Economic Determinism
• Concept of Hegemony
• Theory of Hegemony
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Critique of Economic Determinism
• Significance of culture and social consciousness
• Background: Success of revolution in the East (Russia), failure in the West
• Implicit critique of false consciousness thesis
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Concept of Hegemony
• Distinction between mainstream and Gramscian understandings of hegemony
• Mainstream: power as capability or power as a relation
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Gramscian Concept of Power
• Dual nature of power
• Centaur: half-man, half-beast
• Coercion and Consent (capability and moral leadership)
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Gramscian Theory of Hegemony
• Dual nature of power
• Distinction between Dominance and Hegemony
• Political society/Civil society nexus
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Theory of Hegemony(Continued)
• Significance of Civil Society
• Institutions of Civil society
• Moral education
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SUMMARY
• Expanded notion of power
• Significance of cultural hegemony
• Civil society/State nexus