Author(s)

Feiyan Xiao

Corresponding Author

Feiyan Xiao

Abstract

Cultural hegemony put forward by the celebrated Italian political theorist Antonia Gramsci advocates the persistent war of position within the enormous civil society, which, both as supplement and as substitute for the traditional political governance and military oppression, grants with priority ideological indoctrination and cultural control for the maintenance of the domination and for the subversion of the dominance. Therefore, cultural hegemony offers a new cultural interpretation of Marxist and establishes the foundation for the postmodernism theory.

Keywords

Cultural hegemony; Gramsci; Civil society; Intellectual; The war of position; Postmodernism