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Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation

By David McNally

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0791447359, 9780791447352
LCC
HM636.M35 2001eb
Open Library ID
OL7802368M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
788 kB (806408 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Radical Social and Political Theory
Pages
277\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Bodies of Meaning presents a vigorous challenge to postmodernist theories of language and politics which detach language from human bodies and their material practices. Beginning with the 'historical bodies' theorized by Marx, Darwin, and Freud, McNally develops an alternative account of language which draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin and recent contributions to materialist feminism. In bringing the body back into language, this book makes a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory.

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