James Martin - Hegemony

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3 Title Page Hegemony James Martin polity

4 Copyright Page Copyright Page Copyright © James Martin 2022 The right of James Martin to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2022 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2160-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2161-6 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021947546 by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

5 Dedication Dedication For my mother

6 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to a number of people for their help in producing this book: George Owers and Julia Davies at Polity for commissioning it and steering it to completion; my colleague Saul Newman and the publisher’s three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an early draft and for suggested revisions; and Susan for some last-minute good sense. Naturally, all responsibility for what follows is mine.

7 1 What is Hegemony? Domination as Leadership? Power, Subjectivity, Ethics Power – a strategic concept Subjectivity – capturing experience Ethics – uniting leaders and led Chapter Outline

8 2 Gramsci: Hegemony and Revolution Gramsci’s Fusion Revolution and the Italian State Hegemony and the Prison Notebooks Building consent: state and civil society Intellectuals, ideology, and common sense Revolutionary ethics: the ‘Modern Prince’ Tensions in Gramsci’s Analysis Togliatti and the ‘New Party’ Conclusion

9 3 Marxism: Hegemony and the State Consensus Politics? Class Consciousness and Elite Culture Structuralism and the Capitalist State A Dialectic of Structure and Strategy? Popular Culture, Ideology, and Crisis Rebuilding Consent: from Thatcherism to Populism Conclusion

10 4 Post-Marxism: Hegemony and Radical Democracy Politics in Fragments Deconstructing Marxism Subjects of Discourse Radical Democracy and Pluralism A Populism of the Left? Conclusion

11 5 Beyond the State: Hegemony in the World Leading the World Gramsci and International Relations A New Global Order? Global Subjects Counter-Hegemony Conclusion

12 6 The End of Hegemony? Radical Politics Without Hegemony Power and Ontology Affective Subjectivity Ethics of Commitment A Moment for Strategy Conclusion

13 References

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

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James Martin

polity

Copyright © James Martin 2022

The right of James Martin to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2022 by Polity Press

Polity Press

65 Bridge Street

Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK

Polity Press

101 Station Landing

Suite 300

Medford, MA 02155, USA

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2160-9

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2161-6 (pb)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021947546

by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL

The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.

Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.

For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

For my mother

I would like to express my gratitude to a number of people for their help in producing this book: George Owers and Julia Davies at Polity for commissioning it and steering it to completion; my colleague Saul Newman and the publisher’s three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an early draft and for suggested revisions; and Susan for some last-minute good sense. Naturally, all responsibility for what follows is mine.