Cornell University
Sage School of Philosophy
PhD, 2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science
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    Escaping the Throne Room
    Historical Materialism 22 (2): 63-98. 2014.
    InThe Gramscian MomentPeter Thomas fundamentally revises the ‘textbook’ Gramsci – a theorist whose work centred on a primordial East/West distinction, focused on the superstructure, and upon the ways a ruling class secured subaltern consent to its rule. Placing special emphasis on the Notebooks from 1932, Thomas critiques readings of Gramsci by Perry Anderson and Louis Althusser, and finds that Gramsci articulated the ‘philosophy of praxis’ not so much as a synonym for, or declaration of indepen…Read more