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Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
Unlike Hannah Arendt, and that strain of philosophical thinking that sees common sense as a reliable touchstone to which intellectual speculation must always return, Gramsci insists on its unreliability. It “takes countless different forms,” is “fragmentary, incoherent” (SPN, 419).
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
Rather than turn us toward an unintelligible promise of redemption, Marx seeks to make us recognize that everything depends on what we do with our finite time and our shared lives. This is why Marx’s critique of capitalism from the beginning is intertwined with his critique of religion and why one cannot understand one without the other. “The critique of religion,” Marx writes, “is the premise of all critique.”
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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