Morton, Adam David

Traveling with Gramsci

The Spatiality of Passive Revolution
fa parte di Ekers, Michael, Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics , Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell , 17.12.2012 , pp. 45 - 64
This chapter addresses specific features of the powerful geographical and spatial sense of passive revolution, by examining Edward Said's assertion that Antonio Gramsci "created in his work an essentially geographical, territorial apprehension of human history and society." For Said, Gramsci produced a certain type of critical consciousness that was geographical and spatial in its fundamental coordinates. It is argued that there is a critical consciousness within Gramsci's philosophy of praxis that embodies a spatial sense of locating or situating theory within specific circumstances. Elements of this critical consciousness are examined in the second division of the argument, which embarks on producing a specific reading of passive revolution to assert the wider spatial and geographical relevance of the concept and its conditions. The argument then concludes with a set of extended reflections on the specific problem of what happens to a theory when it moves from one place to another.
Lingua eng
Nomi [author] Morton, Adam David
Soggetti
Rivoluzione passiva
Filosofia della praxis
Passive Revolution
Philosophy of Praxis