Morera, Esteve Gramsci's Critical Modernity

Considers whether Antonio Gramsci was the first postmodern thinker in the Marxist tradition. It is acknowledged that Gramsci expressed the fundamentally postmodern notion that Enlightenment thinkers were wrong in their perception of myth & metanarratives as objective knowledge. In addition, his notions about cultural politics, the history of subaltern groups, & relations between power & truth appear in sync with postmodernist thinking. However, a thorough reading of the Quaderni del carcere ([Prison Notebooks] 1975) does not substantiate his work as prefiguring postmodernism but leads to understanding Gramsci as a cautious & critically modern thinker who was neither a rationalist nor a positivist. Although his treatments of hegemony & objectivity directed him to consider concerns that appear in postmodern critiques of post-Enlightenment thought, it is argued that Gramsci was involved in a process of self-clarification & intellectual growth that did not adopt the irony considered the key intellectual virtue of postmodernity. He rejected irony in favor of "passionate sarcasm," the manner of distance & understanding that typifies historicopolitical action. 37 References. J. Lindroth

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