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Politics Without Guarantees | The Point Magazine

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In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by […]

In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by a circuitous path involving politics and theory but which, as I would eventually learn from him, was also a project of self-examination. The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a thinker beloved to Hall, outlined this path in his Prison Notebooks with the maxim inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, taken up by Socrates as the foundation of philosophy: “Know thyself.” Gramsci rejected, however, “the widespread prejudice that philosophy is a strange and difficult thing just

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