Gramsci as Theorist of Politics

摘要

This paper briefly discusses some of Antonio Gramsci's contributions to the theorization of politics that Peter Ives elucidates in Gramsci's Politics of Language. I also highlight a few of the many illuminating aspects of Ives's in-depth but accessible exploration of Gramsci's approach to language and politics, such as Gramsci's distinction between regressive and progressive forms of hegemony and his antiessentialist and antipositivist theorization of social and linguistic practices. I end with a few questions about Gramsci's positions on faith and political unity as well as the similarities of his approach to poststructuralism.