Considering Gramsci's cultural position in the modern Italy provides us with a frame through which we can analyse our present culture and establish its meaning. First, his writings maintain tensions with reality by virtue of their simple yet impl ...

Considering Gramsci's cultural position in the modern Italy provides us with a frame through which we can analyse our present culture and establish its meaning. First, his writings maintain tensions with reality by virtue of their simple yet implicative styles and thoughts. Second, Gramsci considers culture as life; for him, culture is something produced in association with society and history. This vision was formed by directing against the traditional and ideal perspective of culture that insisted high class culture alone. Third, Gramsci's concept of culture was developed to cultural politics as it were; that is to say, culture is generated and changed relating to society and history, and thus culture becomes a part of the process of sociohistorical production.
The main notion in Gramsci's concept of culture is hegemony. Hegemony allows us to grasp more acutely such modern aspects as leisure, private life, mass culture, etc. that can hardly be explained from political or economic perspective. Hegemony should not be understood as a theoretical or ideal system or structure, but rather an individually experienced procedure. So it is possible for a hegemony to be revised and restructured towards "counter-hegemony". Hegemony provides us with a chance to consider culture as a way open to political and social analysis and criticism of our life.
This paper strives to seek more concrete examples for those mentioned above in the modern Italy which implicates such inter-twisted problems as Rosorgimento, Catholicism, the southern problem, national identity, etc. Reconsidering Gramsci from cultural perspective allows us to analyse these problems from more updated point of view which can be linked to discovering more effective insights on our contemporary world. For example, Renate Holub holds that when we utilize Gramsci's notion of hegemony, we are able to analyse our world even beyond that which the Frankfurt School did; if we concentrate the technological effects in our cultural world, the study of culture can be transferred from the past text-centered analysis to the problem of social reception and interpretation of the texts. In this respect, the concept of hegemony should be a powerful tool by which we are able to analyse appropriately not only the modern Italy but also our own contemporary life and culture.

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 안과 밖의 변증법
Ⅲ. 지식인 - "새로운 질서"
Ⅳ. 헤게모니와 문화정치학
Ⅴ. 삶과 문화의 읽기
Ⅵ. 결론

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 안과 밖의 변증법
Ⅲ. 지식인 - "새로운 질서"
Ⅳ. 헤게모니와 문화정치학
Ⅴ. 삶과 문화의 읽기
Ⅵ. 결론