Show Notes
Gramsci is now a "star in the firmament" of humanities.
Can his fame help us to better understand his thought or does it risk producing a misinterpretation of his thought?
We will try to answer this question by focusing on the idea of hegemony, likely Gramsci's most famous analytical category
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