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34.ulton, “Religion and Politics in Gramsci,” 203. F
- La Rocca, “Introduzione,” 110–129.
36.ee Gramsci, S Quaderni del carcere, 1378, 1396, 1397; see also Fulton,
“Religion and Politics in Gramsci,” 206. - La Rocca, “Introduzione,” 11.
38.ramsci, G Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 325–7. In one of the
attempts to reconcile Gramsci with Anglo-American progressive pragma-
tism, Nadia Urbinati has written that “the movement from common sense
to philosophy might be seen as a gradual (and revolving) move from a
lesser to a greater level of generality in the expression of the moral prin-
ciples that are already shared by a political community.” See Nadia Urbinati,
“The Souths of Antonio Gramsci and the Concept of Hegemony,” in Italy’s
“Southern Question”: Orientalism in One Country, edited by Jane Schneider
(New York: Berg, 1998), 151. The problem with this interpretation is that
common sense as articulated within the Anglo-American tradition, unlike
Gramsci’s (and probably Vico’s) view, is considered not an expression of
the ideology of subaltern classes but instead as an epistemic foundation
elaborated in the ideological terrain external to the masses that express it.
See Salvatore, Public Sphere, 215–242.
39.ramsci, G La religione come senso comune, 157; Vinco, Una fede senza
futuro?, 102. - Quoted in Fulton, “Religion and Politics in Gramsci,” 202.
41.ee Gramsci, S Quaderni del carcere, 748, 1447; and Vinco, Una fede senza
futuro?, 48, 57, 58.
42.ichel Foucault, “Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault,” M
in Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, edited by
Luther Martin, Huck Gutman and Patrick Hutton (Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1988), 10.
43.ichel Foucault, M Politics, Philosophy, Culture, Interviews and Other Writings,
1977–84, trans. Alan Sheridan et al. (New York: Routledge, 1988), 2–3.
44.ichel Foucault, M Religion and Culture: Michel Foucault, edited by Jeremy
Carrette (New York: Routledge, 1999), 132. This seeming celebration of
the power of religion might seem strange to many readers of Foucault, yet
religious themes are central to Foucault’s oeuvre. In fact, Foucault’s “life-
long project” has been described as an attempt to overcome the alienation
from the soul by exploring how the human sciences and politics turned the