Language and hegemony in Gramsci

✍ Scribed by Ives, Peter R.; Gramsci, Antonio

• Publisher: Fernwood Pub., Pluto Press
• Year: 2004;2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Reading Gramsci
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A much needed handbook of international journalistic practice for professional journalists and students of journalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Reading Gramsci......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Language and hegemony in Gramsci......Page 16
The pervasiveness of Gramsci's hegemony......Page 17
Approaching language and hegemony......Page 20
Overview......Page 23
Language, production and politics in the twentieth century......Page 27
The many 'linguistic turns'......Page 30
Saussure's structural approach to language......Page 31
The structuralist turn towards language......Page 36
Philosophy's 'linguistic turn'......Page 40
Marxism and language......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 46
2. Linguistics and Politics in Gramsci's Italy......Page 48
Gramsci's home, Sardinia......Page 49
The Southern Question and the Risorgimento......Page 50
The Language Question......Page 51
Gramsci's youth......Page 53
'Beyond the Wide Waters'......Page 56
Gramsci's linguistics......Page 58
Italian linguistics......Page 59
Bartoli's polemic against the Neogrammarians......Page 62
Idealist linguistics and Benedetto Croce......Page 68
Summary of various approaches to Language......Page 69
Gramsci and Esperanto......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 76
3. Language and Hegemony in the Prison Notebooks......Page 78
Approaching the Prison Notebooks......Page 79
Non-linguistic understandings of hegemony......Page 82
Two broad themes in hegemony......Page 85
Language, philosophy and intellectuals......Page 87
Subalternity and fragmented 'common sense'......Page 92
Language, nation, collective popular will......Page 97
Language and metaphor......Page 99
The structures of language......Page 104
Spontaneous grammar......Page 105
Normative grammar......Page 107
Normative history in spontaneous grammar......Page 111
Normative grammar and progressive hegemony......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 116
Passive revolution and ineffective national language......Page 117
War of manoeuvre and war of position......Page 122
War of position as passive revolution......Page 124
National–popular collective will......Page 125
War of position and new social movement alliances......Page 127
Language as a model for the national–popular collective will......Page 128
Hegemony, political alliances and the united front against Fascism......Page 129
State and civil society......Page 131
The history of state and civil society......Page 132
The state......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 140
5. Postmodernism, New Social Movements and Globalization: Implications for Social and Political Theory......Page 141
Postmodernism, language and relativism: is all the world a text?......Page 143
Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida on language......Page 146
Language and relativism in Gramsci......Page 150
Foucault, language and power......Page 153
Power in Gramsci and Foucault......Page 156
New social movements and discourse: Laclau and Mouffe......Page 159
Laclau and Mouffe's linguistically informed 'Hegemony'......Page 168
Globalization......Page 175
Notes......Page 181
Bibliography......Page 202
B......Page 210
C......Page 211
F......Page 212
G......Page 213
I......Page 214
M......Page 215
P......Page 216
S......Page 217
V......Page 218
Z......Page 219