Peter D. Thomas is Professor in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment and serves on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism and the International Gramsci Journal.

• Introduction: Radical Politics against the New World Order


• 1. Final Cause: Politics Beyond the State


• 2. Material Cause: The Constitution of the Political


• 3. Efficient Cause: Hegemony as a Method of Political Work


• 4. Formal Cause: The Question of Organization


• Conclusion: Contemporary Self-Emancipation

Offering a new reading of Antonio Gramsci's political theory, Radical Politics argues that hegemony is a process of differentiation in which political culture is always changing, and always with the goal of moving toward expanded freedom. Over the course of the book, Peter D. Thomas looks at the way in which various theorists have approached the dilemma of how to engage productively in radical politics and explains why hegemony is a distinctive method of doing politics rather than an end goal. A forceful contribution to ongoing debates about the nature and orientation of contemporary emancipatory movements, Radical Politics provides a counterintuitive interpretation of Gramsci's famous and newly relevant work.