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Reading Gramsci Language and hegemony in Gramsci

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Language and Hegemony in Gramsci demonstrates how Gramsci's writings on language illuminate his entire social and political thought. It documents Gramsci's concern with language from his university studies in linguistics, where he initially derived his famous concept of hegemony, to his last prison notebook. Hegemony has been seen as Gramsci's most important contribution, but without knowledge of its linguistic roots, it is often misunderstood. It is only from the vantage point of Gramsci's writings on language that the full explanatory power of hegemony and his unique combination of Marxist economic analysis and social critique can be fully appreciated. Ives uses Gramsci's focus on language to introduce key ideas of hegemony, intellectuals, passive revolution, civil society and subalternity. Language and Hegemony in Gramsci shows how Gramsci's theorization of power, language and politics addresses issues raised by post-modernism and the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau.

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Contents

• ""Contents""; ""Reading Gramsci""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Language and hegemony in Gramsci""; ""The pervasiveness of Gramsci's hegemony""; ""Approaching language and hegemony""; ""Overview""; ""1. Language and Social Theory: The Many Linguistic Turns""; ""Language, production and politics in the twentieth century""; ""The many 'linguistic turns'""; ""Saussure's structural approach to language""; ""The structuralist turn towards language""; ""Philosophy's 'linguistic turn'""; ""The many other 'linguistic turns'""; ""Marxism and language""; ""Conclusion""
• ""2. Linguistics and Politics in Gramsci's Italy""""Gramsci's home, Sardinia""; ""The Southern Question and the Risorgimento""; ""The Language Question""; ""Gramsci's youth""; ""'Beyond the Wide Waters'""; ""Gramsci's linguistics""; ""Italian linguistics""; ""Bartoli's polemic against the Neogrammarians""; ""Idealist linguistics and Benedetto Croce""; ""Summary of various approaches to Language""; ""Gramsci and Esperanto""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Language and Hegemony in the Prison Notebooks""; ""Approaching the Prison Notebooks""; ""Non-linguistic understandings of hegemony""
• ""Two broad themes in hegemony""""Gramsci's expansion of 'polities'""; ""Language, philosophy and intellectuals""; ""Subalternity and fragmented 'common sense'""; ""Language, nation, collective popular will""; ""Language and metaphor""; ""The structures of language""; ""Two grammars of hegemony""; ""Spontaneous grammar""; ""Normative grammar""; ""Normative history in spontaneous grammar""; ""Normative grammar and progressive hegemony""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Gramsci's Key Concepts, with Linguistic Enrichment""; ""Passive revolution and ineffective national language""
• ""War of manoeuvre and war of position""""War of position as passive revolution""; ""Nationalâ€?popular collective will""; ""War of position and new social movement alliances""; ""Language as a model for the nationalâ€?popular collective will""; ""Hegemony, political alliances and the united front against Fascism""; ""State and civil society""; ""The history of state and civil society""; ""The state""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. Postmodernism, New Social Movements and Globalization: Implications for Social and Political Theory""; ""Postmodernism, language and relativism: is all the world a text?""
• ""Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida on language""""Language and relativism in Gramsci""; ""Foucault, language and power""; ""Power in Gramsci and Foucault""; ""New social movements and discourse: Laclau and Mouffe""; ""Laclau and Mouffe's linguistically informed 'Hegemony'""; ""Globalization""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

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• 9781459323131
• 1459323130

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