Bodies of meaning : studies on language, labor, and liberation /

Bodies of meaning : studies on language, labor, and liberation /

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"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 accoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNally, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body (Philosophy)
Postmodernism.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Postmodernisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Change.
Table of Contents:
  • Nietzsche, Darwin, and the Postmodern Fetish of Language
  • Forgetting the Body: Linguistic Economies from Saussure to Derrida
  • Bodies that Talk: Sex, Tools, Language, and Human Culture
  • Body, Speech, and History: Language and Materialism in Voloshinov and Bakhtin
  • Corporeal Reason: Language, History, and the Body in Walter Benjamin's Dialectics of Awakening.

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