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GRAMSCI'S POLITICS OF LANGUAGE:ENGAGING THE BAKHTIN CIRCLE ANDTHE FRANKFURT SCHOOLAntonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and politi-cal theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, international rela-tions, and post-colonial theory. The centrality of language and linguistics toGramsci's thought, however, has been wholly neglected. In Gramscis Politics ofLanguage, Peter Ives argues that a university education in linguistics and a preoc-cupation with Italian language politics were integral to the theorist's thought. Ivesexplores how the combination of Marxism and linguistics produced a unique andintellectually powerful approach to social and political analysis.To explicate Gramsci's writings on language, Ives compares them with otherMarxist approaches to language, including those of the Bakhtin Circle, WalterBenjamin, and the Frankfurt School, including Jiirgen Habermas. From thesecomparisons, Ives elucidates the implications of Gramsci's writings, which, heargues, retained the explanatory power of the semiotic and dialogic insights ofBakhtin and the critical perspective of the Frankfurt School, while at the sametime foreshadowing the key problems with both approaches that post-structural-ist critiques would later reveal. Gramscis Politics of Language fills a crucial gap inscholarship, linking Gramsci's writings to current debates in social theory andproviding a framework for a thoroughly historical-materialist approach to lan-guage.PETER IVES is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the Universityof Winnipeg.本书版权归University of Toronto Press所有