Lenin and the logic of hegemony : political practice and theory in the class struggle / / Alan Shandro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458611403321
• Autore: Shandro Alan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-04-27106-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Collana: Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 72
• Disciplina: 947.0841092
• Soggetti: Hegemony - Philosophy; Social conflict - Philosophy; Socialism - Soviet Union - History; Political participation - Soviet Union - History; Electronic books.; Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1 A Philosophical Fact: Hegemony in the Class Struggle -- 2 On the Relation of Theory and Practice: Karl Kautsky and the First Post-Marxist -- 3 Situating Marxism in Russia: Ambiguous Coordinates -- 4 Marxism, Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the Class Struggle -- 5 Dogmatism and Criticism: Freedom in the Class Struggle -- 6 Two Orientations to Hegemony: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks -- 7 The Mechanics of Proletarian Hegemony: Solidarity in the Class Struggle -- 8 Imperialism and the Logic of Hegemony: The ‘People’ in the Class Struggle -- 9 The Arm of Criticism and the Criticism of Arms: Courage in the Class Struggle -- 10 A Modern Prince to Discourses of Resistance . . . and Back? -- 1 Karl Kautsky, ‘The Revision of the Austrian Social Democratic Programme’ -- 2 Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? -- 3 Lenin as a Reader of What Is to Be Done? -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony , by means of a careful textual and contextual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his Marxist ; contemporaries, Alan Shandro traces the contours of the ‘(anti-) metaphysical event’ identified by Gramsci in Lenin’s political practice and theory, the emergence of the ‘philosophical fact’ of hegemony. In so doing, he effectively disputes conventional caricatures of Lenin’s role as a political actor and thinker and unearths the underlying parameters of the concept of hegemony in the class struggle. He thereby clarifies the conceptual status of this pervasive but now increasingly elusive notion and the logic of theory and practice at work in it.