Language and hegemony in Gramsci / Peter Ives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ives, Peter, 1968-

Series:

Reading Gramsci.

Reading Gramsci

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937--Views on sociolinguistics.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Language & hegemony in Gramsci

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2004.

Summary:

Language and Hegemony in Gramsci introduces Gramsci's social and political thought through his writings on language. It shows how his focus on language illuminates his central ideas such as hegemony, organic and traditional intellectuals, passive revolution, civil society and subalternity. Peter Ives explores Gramsci's concern with language from his university studies in linguistics 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.This book places Gramsci's ideas within the linguistically influenced social theory of the twentieth century. It summarizes some of the major ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Wittgenstein, language philosophy and post-structuralism in relation to Gramsci's position. By paying great attention to the linguistic underpinnings of Gramsci's Marxism, Language and Hegemony in Gramsci shows how his theorization of power, language and politics address issues raised by post-modernism and the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Chantal Mouffe, and Ernesto Laclau.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

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

Gramsc'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

Summary of various approaches to Language

Gramsci and Esperanto

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 'politics'

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

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

National-popular collective will

War of position and new social movement alliances

Language as a model for the national Πpopular collective will

Hegemony, political alliances and the united front against Fascism.

State and civil society

The history of state and civil society

The state

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-194) and index.

ISBN:

9786611725099

9781783716623

1783716622

9781849644617

1849644616

9781281725097

1281725099

9781435660878

1435660870

OCLC:

666932518