Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and LiberationBodies 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. |
Contents
NIETZSCHE DARWIN AND THE POSTMODERN FETISH OF LANGUAGE | 15 |
FORGETTING THE BODY LINGUISTIC ECONOMIES FROM SAUSSURE TO DERRIDA | 45 |
BODIES THAT TALK SEX TOOLS LANGUAGE AND HUMAN CULTURE | 79 |
BODY SPEECH AND HISTORY LANGUAGE AND MATERIALISM IN VOLOSHINOV AND BAKHTIN | 111 |
CORPOREAL REASON LANGUAGE HISTORY AND THE BODY IN WALTER BENJAMINS DIALECTICS OF AWAKENING | 161 |
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