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Title: | The Plural Temporalities of Hegemony |
Authors: | Thomas, PD |
Keywords: | Louis Althusser;Antonio Gramsci;historical time;plural temporalities;hegemony |
Issue Date: | 25-Sep-2017 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Thomas, P.D. (2017) 'The Plural Temporalities of Hegemony', Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society, 29 (2), pp. 281-302. doi: 10.1080/08935696.2017.1358500. |
Abstract: | Louis Althusser’s critique of Gramsci’s ‘absolute historicism’ was the occasion for the elaboration of a distinctive notion of plural historical temporalities or times. In this article, I argue, first, that Althusser’s theory of plural historical temporalities should be understood as integrally linked to his critique both of structuralism and of theories of the subject. Second, I argue that, Althusser’s early criticisms notwithstanding, Gramsci can be understood to have elaborated a consistently non-formalist notion of constitutive temporal plurality, particularly with his notion of ‘prevision’ as a method of political work. Rather than culminating in a figure of temporal synchronisation, hegemonic politics should instead be thought as a mode of intervention that valorises, rather than negates, the ‘non-presence of the present’, or constitutive non-contemporaneity, as the fundamental condition of revolutionary politics. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13335 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2017.1358500 |
ISSN: | 0893-5696 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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