Peter Ives
- Affiliation: University of Winnipeg
Peter Ives is assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. He completed his PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto, in 1998. He is author of Gramsci’s Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School (2004) and has written for Rethinking Marxism and Left History as well as number of non-academic journals.
Books by Peter Ives
Language and Hegemony in Gramsci
Peter Ives
Language and Hegemony in Gramsci demonstrates how Gramsci’s writings on language illuminate his entire social and political thought. It documents Gramsci’s concern with language from his university studies in linguistics, where he initially derived his famous concept of hegemony, to his last prison notebook. Hegemony has been seen as Gramsci’s most important contribution, but without knowledge of its linguistic roots, it is often misunderstood. It is only from the vantage point… (more information)