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Question
1. What is hegemony according to Antonio Gramsci?
2. How is hegemony different form outright authoritarianism?
3. How is Gramsci's concept of hegemony different form Marx's conception of ideology?
4. What is the difference between war of maneuver and war of position in Gramsci's theory of hegemony?
5. Using the concept of hegemony show how the Italian fascists and communists differed in their approach to assuming political power.
6. Discuss how the concept of hegemony was applied to the understanding of British politics under Thatcher.
7. Discuss how Laclau and Mouffe extended Gramsci's concept of hegemony.
8. What is the difference between the who and how views of power?
9. "Not all 'who' theorists of power have a naïve 'capacity outcome' model of power." Why?
10. What is the problem with a one-dimension view of power according to Stevens?
11. What is the problem with a two-dimensional view of power according to Stevens?
12. What are the advantages of a three-dimensional view of power according to Stevens?
13. Discuss Foucault's how to power approach.
14. Foucault makes a distinction between ancient and moder operation of power. Explain.
15. What are technologies of power according to Foucault?
16. What is recognition?
17. What is the relation between desire and recognition according to Hegel.
18. What is the struggle of recognition according to Hegel? 19. Discuss Hegel's master-slave relation.
20. What is Kojeve's contribution to the discussion of recognition?
21. What are objects of desire and what is their relation to the issue of recognition?
22. Discuss Alex Honneth's three levels of recognition.
23. Explain Jean Paul Sartre's reaction to Hegel's conception of recognition.
24. Discuss Merleau-Ponty's view of the relation between language and recognition.
25. Discuss Jacques Lacan's position of language and recognition.