The Role of Intellectuals in Shaping Hegemony, Consent, and Political Emotion
Oliver A Dueza | Gerlie C Ogatis | Anna Josa T Ortiz
Abstract:
This paper aims to expose the underlying forces which shaped the
hegemonic character of the Philippine civil society. The ideas of
Gramsci written in his prison notebooks remained relevant even
at present, especially in understanding the capitalists’ control of
social and political affairs. The state of the Filipino society today
mirrors Gramsci’s conception of capitalism and its influences on
the political and social affairs. Despite Karl Marx’s prediction
of its death, the capitalist class managed to evolve, and it even
survived with ethical measures involved. It is here where Gramsci
believed that there is a need for the intellectuals to take a stand
and form counter-hegemony against the capitalist control. One of
the means to achieve a collective hegemony is by gaining consent
from all levels of social strata. Doing so will demand an awareness
of the political emotion that binds citizens together for them to feel
that they belong to one hegemonic group. Thus, this paper tried to
analyze in great deal, how capitalism maintains hegemonic control
in our civil society and explain at the same time the necessary role
of the Filipino intellectuals in forming contradiction in the given
economic and political order.
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