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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, David, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy).

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 277 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-270) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9178-1

0-585-35076-0