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posthegemony

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pos-thege-mo-ny
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English hegemony English posthegemony From post- + hegemony.

Usage

Questions

What does posthegemony mean?
The theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067
Where does posthegemony come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English hegemony English posthegemony From post- + hegemony.

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