Abstract

This text analyzes how it is that Gramsci, through the category of hegemony and the expanded conception of the State, explains the reciprocal relationship between civil society and political society and accounts for the passage from private interest-the economic-corporate-to the general. That is, the transition from the economic to the political, highlighting the understanding of the ideological-cultural elements as aspects of a central methodological and strategic importance; in which language, seen as Weltanschauung, manifests itself as one of the privileged forms of the exercise of consensus. Language as the concrete space of hegemony; as a decisive dimension of the political-cultural stratification of the class system that traverses and defines the forms of social thought -from common sense to scientific theories of reality-,that is, it stands as the concrete space of hegemony.