Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World: Gramscian Concepts for the History of Science

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This volume in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categories to the historical, sociological, and cultural analysis of science. The authors argue that the perspective of hegemony and subalternity allows us critically to assess the political directedness of scientific practices as well as to reflect on the ideological status of disciplines that deal with science at a meta-level – historical, socio-historical, and epistemological. Contributors include: Massimiliano Badino, Javier Balsa, Lino Camprubí, Ana Carneiro, Luís Miguel Carolino, Riccardo Ciavolella, Roger Cooter, Alina-Sandra Cucu, Maria Paula Diogo, Isabel Jiménez Lucena, Annelies Lannoy, Jorge Molero Mesa, Agustí Nieto-Galan, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Matteo Realdi, Jaume Sastre-Juan, Arne Schirrmacher, Ana Simões, Carlos Tabernero Holgado, and Carlos Ziller Camenietzki. ‎Contents ‎Notes on Contributors ‎For Gramsci: Hegemony in the History and Philosophy of Science (Badino and Omodeo) ‎Part 1. State of the Art ‎Chapter 1. Past and Present: Revisiting ‘Gramscianism’ (Nieto-Galan) ‎Part 2. Disciplinary Struggles ‎Chapter 2. The Concept of Hegemony in Discourse Analysis (Balsa) ‎Chapter 3. Hegemony and the Political Subject in Anthropology (Ciavolella) ‎Chapter 4. ‘The Common Cult of the Historical Truth’: The Formation of History of Religions in France and the Role of Socio-cultural Elites (Lannoy) ‎Part 3. Science and Religion ‎Chapter 5. ‘Jesuit Science’ and Cultural Hegemony: A Political-Historiographical Critique (Omodeo) ‎Chapter 6. ‘O pobre intelectual’: Manuel Lourosa, Astronomy, and the Political Restoration of Portugal in the Seventeenth Century (Carolino and Camenietzki) ‎Chapter 7. Cosmology, Religion, and Cultural Hegemony: The Scientific Apostolate of Antoni Romañá in Early Francoist Spain (Realdi) ‎Part 4. Organic Intellectuals ‎Chapter 8. Using Gramsci’s Dialogical Approach: The Struggle for Meaning in Q&A Sections of the Spanish Press in the First Third of the Twentieth Century (Jiménez-Lucena, Molero-Mesa and Tabernero-Holgado) ‎Chapter 9. The Scientific Intellectual, a Hostile Milieu, or a Cultural Dispositif? Revisiting the Historiography of Interwar German Physics and How It Explains Scientific Culture (Schirrmacher) ‎Chapter 10. Engineering as Cultural Hegemony: What a Gramscian Interpretation of Francoism Tells Us about Gramsci (Camprubí) ‎Chapter 11. Political Entanglements and Scientific Hegemony: Rector-Scientists at the University of Lisbon Under the First Republic and the Dictatorship (1911–74) (Simões, Diogo and Carneiro) ‎Part 5. Towards Cold War Science ‎Chapter 12. Philanthropy, Mass Media, and Cultural Hegemony: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Politics of Science Popularisation in the 1930s (Sastre-Juan) ‎Chapter 13. Why Hegemony Was Not Born in the Factory: Twentieth-Century Sciences of Labour from a Gramscian Angle (Cucu) ‎Part 6. Past and Future ‎Chapter 14. The Importance of Gramsci Today: The ‘New Lorians’ and the Biological Reduction of History (Cooter) ‎References ‎Index of Places ‎Index of Names