Times and counter-times of hegemon:

Gramsci, Cox and International Relations in the prison of Political Science

Abstract

The text proposes to answer summarily the following question: how is it possible to counter summarily two readings on Gramsci in the field of International Relations, that confined to the traditional approaches of Political Science and another in terms of a broader perspective outside of such confinement? The hypothesis points to a very prolific relationship of approach of the historical dynamics that organically conceives the national and international plans under the association of the analytical keys of Gramscian categories of hegemony and passive revolution with Trotsky’s uneven and combined development in the different temporalities of the production of life as opposed to the imprisonment of great emphasis on Political Science in accordance with the traditional approaches of International Relations in homogeneous, cohesive record, without different speeds with regard to the dimensions of life as a whole. In order to give account of the argument, the objective of the text is to demonstrate summarily that: a) most of the literature that tangents to the Gramscian category of hegemony at the international level unties the organic nexus between philosophy, history and politics in the traditional references of the disciplinary field of International Relations in the “prison of Political Science”; b) the organic link between national and international of the category in question implies a significant conter-time between these two levels on the scope of historical transformation, especially when Gramsci refers to the complete hegemonies; c) the articulation between national and international of the recurrent sense of incomplete hegemonies as hypotheses of passive revolutions can be enriched with the contribution of the unequal and combined development.