Bodies of meaning : studies on language, labor, and liberation
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Bodies of meaning : studies on language, labor, and liberation
（SUNY series in radical social and political theory）
State University of New York Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-270) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Citations
Introduction
1
Nietzsche, Darwin, and the Postmodern Fetish of Language
2
Forgetting the Body: Linguistic Economies from Saussure to Derrida
3
Bodies that Talk: Sex, Tools, Language, and Human Culture
4
Body, Speech, and History: Language and Materialism in Voloshinov and Bakhtin
5
Corporeal Reason: Language, History, and the Body in Walter Benjamin's Dialectics of Awakening
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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