Language and Hegemony in Gramsci

Reading Gramsci viii Joseph A. Buttigieg Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1(1) Language and hegemony in Gramsci 1(1) The pervasiveness of Gramsci's hegemony 2(3) Approaching language and hegemony 5(3) Overview 8(4) Language and Social Theory: The Many Linguistic Turns 12(21) Language, production and politics in the twentieth century 12(3) The many `linguistic turns' 15(1) Saussure's structural approach to language 16(5) The structuralist turn towards language 21(4) Philosophy's `linguistic turn' 25(4) The many other `linguistic turns' 29(1) Marxism and language 29(2) Conclusion 31(2) Linguistics and Politics in Gramsci's Italy 33(30) Gramsci's home, Sardinia 34(1) The Southern Question and the Risorgimento 35(1) The Language Question 36(2) Gramsci's youth 38(3) `Beyond the Wide Waters' 41(2) Gramsci's linguistics 43(1) Italian linguistics 44(3) Bartoli's polemic against the Neogrammarians 47(6) Idealist linguistics and Benedetto Croce 53(1) Summary of various approaches to Language 54(1) Gramsci and Esperanto 55(6) Conclusion 61(2) Language and Hegemony in the Prison Notebooks 63(39) Approaching the Prison Notebooks 64(3) Non-linguistic understandings of hegemony 67(3) Two broad themes in hegemony 70(2) Gramsci's expansion of `politics' 72(1) Language, philosophy and intellectuals 72(5) Subalternity and fragmented `common sense' 77(5) Language, nation, collective popular will 82(2) Language and metaphor 84(5) The structures of language 89(1) Two grammars of hegemony 90(1) Spontaneous grammar 90(2) Normative grammar 92(4) Normative history in spontaneous grammar 96(2) Normative grammar and progressive hegemony 98(3) Conclusion 101(1) Gramsci's Key Concepts, with Linguistic Enrichment 102(24) Passive revolution and ineffective national language 102(5) War of manoeuvre and war of position 107(2) War of position as passive revolution 109(1) National--popular collective will 110(2) War of position and new social movement alliances 112(1) Language as a model for the national-popular collective will 113(1) Hegemony, political alliances and the united front against Fascism 114(2) State and civil society 116(1) The history of state and civil society 117(2) The state 119(6) Conclusion 125(1) Postmodernism, New Social Movements and Globalization: Implications for Social and Political Theory 126(40) Postmodernism, language and relativism: is all the world a text? 128(3) Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida on language 131(4) Language and relativism in Gramsci 135(3) Foucault, language and power 138(3) Power in Gramsci and Foucault 141(3) New social movements and discourse: Laclau and Mouffe 144(9) Laclau and Mouffe's linguistically informed `Hegemony' 153(7) Globalization 160(6) Notes 166(21) Bibliography 187(8) Index 195