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In prison - exile

In: Political Creativity

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Gramsci’s Quaderni is exilic and contrapuntal thinking. Many of the finest texts of political analysis, just like Machiavelli’s Il Principe, have been written in exile. In prison Gramsci was cut off from his present. He had to rely on his memory and imagination to create something original and new. Questions were more important for him than answers. Questions promote creativity and elicit new ideas. His principal problematic – and leitmotiv in writing – was transformation in history, society, science, politics and of self. Transformation and self-transformation challenge politics and political analysis. Groundbreaking transformation is structural. Gramsci relates it with simultaneity. The force of capitalism is the force of simultaneity, but it is manifest in its combined unevenness. Hegemony is also structural as simultaneity.

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  • ., 2024. "In prison - exile," Chapters, in: Political Creativity, chapter 1, pages 13-30, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22523_1
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