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Gramsci’s Philosophy of Praxis
Gramsci’s Philosophy of Praxis was an attempt to present Marxism as a political philosophy promoting the inter-definable relation between theory and practice. No practice without theory; every man was a philosopher. Marx’s call to change the world (act) more than interpret it (think) did not repudiate philosophy. It reaffirmed the unity theory-practice contextualising it in history. This characterised the intellectual project of the Prison Notebooks as the way ahead for the political affirmation of the working class. Praxis became a pedagogical, consciousness- raising practice. Enriched by other concepts – structure-superstructure (mode of production), intellectuals-working class (historic bloc) – Gramsci’s praxis was also an attempt to prevent Marxism, philosophically presented as historical materialism, from morphing into metaphysics and vulgar materialism. Respecting the strictures of ‘translatability’, praxis is adopted to discuss the 1970s industrialisation and its aftermath in Malta.peer-reviewe
Phase structure of 3D Z(N) lattice gauge theories at finite temperature: large-N and continuum limits
We study numerically three-dimensional Z(N) lattice gauge theories at finite
temperature, for N = 5, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 20 on lattices with temporal extension
= 2, 4, 8. For each model, we locate phase transition points and
determine critical indices. We propose also the scaling of critical points with
N. The data obtained enable us to verify the scaling near the continuum limit
for the Z(N) models at finite temperatures.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures, 9 table
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