(Re)visiting Gramsci: considerations about the State and power

Authors

  • Kathleen Elane Leal Vasconcelos Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB).
  • Mauricelia Cordeira da Silva Faculdade Leão Sampaio, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará.
  • Valdilene Pereira Viana Schmaller Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802013000100008

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to revise the Gramscian contributions about capitalist society, with an emphasis on his reflections about the State and power. It first situates the foundational socio-historic elements of the author’s analysis, inscribed in the particular scenario of the transition from competitive capitalism to the state of monopoly capitalism. It revives the theoreticalanalytical bases of Gramsci’s thinking, based on the unique contributions of the writings of Marx and Engels to the formulation of the
concept of the expanded State. It defends the current relevance of Gramsci’s thinking to the revelation of the capitalist ethos, principally by the analysis of the contemporary strategies of recomposition of the bourgeois hegemony.

Author Biographies

Kathleen Elane Leal Vasconcelos, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB).

Doutoranda em Serviço Social na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Professora da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), Campina Grande, Paraíba.

Mauricelia Cordeira da Silva, Faculdade Leão Sampaio, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará.

Assistente Social. Mestre em Serviço Social pela UFPE. Docente do curso de Serviço Social da Faculdade Leão Sampaio.

Valdilene Pereira Viana Schmaller, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

Doutora em Serviço Social pela UFPE. Professora do Departamento de Serviço Social e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da UFPE.

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Published

2013-06-10

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2013): Marx, Marxismos e Serviço Social

Section

Thematic space

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