![]() Gramsci took ideology seriously arguing that, to become operative, critical ideas must make their way into in people’s everyday existence. Civil society is also intimately linked to the production, circulation and consumption of discourses and myths its constitution, in other words, is ideological. In this context, the civil society features simultaneously an object of conquest, a battlefield among different social and political groups, and the outcome of a given configuration of forces in a specific historic context. With Gramsci, hegemony stretches beyond the pure “economic-corporative” level, being supplemented by a veritable “ethical-political” layer. In Gramsci’s view, hegemony is not simply a matter of domination because it also requires “direction”, that is, headship or consensual leadership. ![]() Civil society is a direct expression of hegemony, which Gramsci famously theorised as a pattern of established power relations among social groups in a given historical political situation. This article focuses on one relatively under-researched notion in Gramsci’s cultural theory, namely the notion of civil society.
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