Gramsci meets emergentist materialism: Towards a neo neo-gramscian perspective on world order. Issue 4 (21st May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pass, Jonathan
• Is Part Of: Review of international studies. Volume 44:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 595
• Page End: 618
• Publication Date: 2018-05-21
• Subjects: Antonio Gramsci, -- Neo-Gramscian, -- Hegemony, -- Critical Realism, -- Emergentist Materialism, -- Transnationalisation; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1017/S0260210518000116
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0260-2105

Abstract

Abstract: Neo-Gramscians have made invaluable contributions to expanding traditional IR/IPE theory. Nevertheless, as the following article 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, without which the Coxian critical theory dream of engendering social emancipation cannot be fully realised.