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L'hégémonie culturelle
- GenresNonfiction
160 pages
Published September 11, 2024
About the author
Antonio Gramsci
584 books1,053 followersAntonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, where he remained until his death in 1937.
During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources — not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. He also attempted to break from the economic determinism of orthodox Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a philosophy of praxis and an absolute historicism that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.
During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources — not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. He also attempted to break from the economic determinism of orthodox Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a philosophy of praxis and an absolute historicism that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.
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March 1, 2026
Je suis probablement trop inculte pour apprécier les théories gramsciennes telles que proposées ici, je recommande d'avoir de bonnes connaissances sur sa pensée et sur le contexte politique de l'entre deux guerres pour s'y attaquer !
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October 21, 2024Grave interessant la derniere partie sur le rapport entre les jacobins, les paysans et la création de la nation française
March 13, 2025
Lecture assez décevante. La préface essaie de recontextualiser Gramsci et elle fonctionne plutôt bien, et les éditeurs ont également ajouté un contexte avant chaque extrait de texte, mais ça ne suffit pas pour mon petit cerveau étriqué; les textes de Gramsci sont incompréhensible. C'est peut-être car c'est la première fois que je lis Gramsci et que j'aurais dû commencer par une introduction en bonne et due forme, mais je conseille quand même à toute personne voulant lire ce livre d'avoir un minimum de connaissances sur lui.
November 5, 2024
Bien, plein de choses utiles. Dur de voir le propos toujours dans sa cohérence et pas évident à recontextualiser.
October 9, 2025
Une très bonne introduction à Gramsci et à son concept, souvent mal compris, d'hégémonie culturelle. Complète bien ses lettres de prison que j'avais lues. On va essayer d'attaquer les Carnets cette année (en italien de préférence)🙏🏻.
April 16, 2026
quoi qu'il ait des bases idéologiques intéressantes, beaucoup d'éléments présentés dans le livre sont assez vieillots et ont tendance à ne plus vraiment être d'actualité dans un capitalisme néolibéral en crise
donc un peu mitigé
je pense ça reste intéressant
donc un peu mitigé
je pense ça reste intéressant
February 1, 2025
resumer tous les cahiers de prisons de gramsci dans une anthologie de 100 pages en livre de poche, nan belle perf je m'assoie et j'applaudis
April 12, 2025
Cervo grosso 🤌
July 10, 2026
pas tout compris il va falloir le relire
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