The readings of Williams and Gramsci ?

In the readings of williams and Gramsci a long with the other readings as well where found to be similar but different.



Williams wrote mainly about Ideology as consquence of division of labor. Another subject he touched basics on was the social and economic growths within a society. For me it seemed as though all the readings made each other come to life. For example, in the readings of Antonio Gramsci he touched bascis on a little of everything from Ideology, social class, economic political and Intellectual status with in a community. Gramsci made me want to read more after he made the comment that " All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the funtion of intellectuals ". While reading this it made realize that he believes everyone is an interllectual on their on primises and just because your not a part of an elite group doesn't mean your not a key player on the team. He believes however big or small the part of production you shared an important role in the conditioning process. In every social class there are differnt sets of intellectualls so all though together something seperates you to make you unique in your own way. Ecclesiastics ( clergy men) was thought to be one of the most prominent groups of ntellectuals because their extensive knowledge of the philosophy of the past to present science of age.



To answer the quetsion of what was the least useful in the literary readings I would say I learned a little something from each reading. I think that literature primarily the Marxist readings coinside with history.