Gramsci meets emergentist materialism: towards a neo neo-Gramscian perspective on world order

Neo-Gramscians have made invaluable contributions to expanding traditional international relations/international political economy theory. Nevertheless, as the following paper indicates, the ontological, epistemological and methodological positions they adopt results in a rather one-sided interpreta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Pass, Jonathan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)
Repositorio:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:rio.upo.es:10433/22608
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22608
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Antonio Gramsci
Hegemony
Neo-Gramscian
Critical realism
Emergentist materialism
Transnationalization
Critical theory
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Sumario:Neo-Gramscians have made invaluable contributions to expanding traditional international relations/international political economy theory. Nevertheless, as the following paper indicates, the ontological, epistemological and methodological positions they adopt results in a rather one-sided interpretation of Antonio Gramsci and a partial, at times erroneous, account of the nature of the current global system. In highlighting these oversights, the “neo” neo-Gramscian approach presented here – rooted in a critical realist philosophy of science, specifically ‘emergentist materialism’, and involving a more complete reading of Gramsci – seeks to lay the basis for the elaboration of a more convincing theoretical and conceptual framework to analyse the changing dynamics of contemporary world order. Only at that point could Robert Cox’s critical theory dream of engendering social emancipation be fully realised.