Ebook: Gramsci's common sense: inequality and its narratives

Subalternity -- Intellectuals -- Common sense -- What subalterns know -- Adam Smith : a bourgeois, organic intellectual? -- The common sense of the Tea Party -- Common sense, good sense, and Occupy -- Conclusion. Reading Gramsci in the twenty-first century.;Kate Crehan applies Antonio Gramsci's concepts of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense to offer new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take and the relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression as well as the construction of political narratives.