A noção de estado ampliado em Gramsci: um estudo sobre a formação do Estado e a relação com a opinião pública.

Abstract

This article deals with the formation of public opinion according to an analysis of the reflexes performed by Antonio Gramsci on the concept of “Extended State”. The importance of the present research shows that it is indispensable to better understand as contradictions present at the present time, besides providing a discussion about how the public opinion can be molded and determined to satisfy the interests of the class that fight for hegemony. The main objective is, therefore, understand from the Sardinian philosopher's reflections as public opinion is formed in civil society and what is its role in the articulation and reproduction of power relations. The methodology adopted is bibliographic research of the work produced by Antonio Gramsci, so much articles published before when after imprisonment publication, as well as publications of scholars of Gramsci, Hegel and Marx. The Sardinian intellectual formulations provided a more organic understanding of the formation of "public opinion" based on a new interpretation of the concept of "civil society" as a plan pertinent to the superstructure of the state.