A Marxist Philosophy Of Language

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134902408

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Philosophy of Nonsense by Jean-Jacques Lecercle Pdf

'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

Author : V. N. Voloshinov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674550986

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Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by V. N. Voloshinov Pdf

V. N. Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others. Volosinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to construct a new kind of field: semiotics or textual theory. Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik have provided a new preface to discuss Volosinov in relation to the great resurgence of interest in all the writing of the circle of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047408482

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A Marxist Philosophy of Language by Jean-Jacques Lecercle Pdf

The book is a critique of dominant views of language (Chomsky’s research programme in linguistics, Habermas’s philosophy of communicative action). It rehearses the fragmentary Marxist tradition about language and proposes a series of concepts for a coherent philosophy of language within Marxism.

Author : Felice Cimatti,Christoph Demmerling,Pietro Garofalo
Publisher : Mimesis International
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8869773809

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Wittgenstein and Marx by Felice Cimatti,Christoph Demmerling,Pietro Garofalo Pdf

Drawing upon multiple research fields, this volume explores the affinities between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein, arguing that although they belong to two different philosophical traditions, their thinking can offer benefits across both political philosophy and philosophy of language.

Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000142730

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Social Theory and Language by Glyn Williams Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.// The book posits that theory conditions how objects are constructed and in turn the meanings allocated to them and explores the implications for the relationship between language and the social. The volume traces this relationship from its foundations in the work of Enlightenment philosophers, in which sociology and linguistics emerged as coherent disciplines. Taking this work as a point of departure, the book examines the unfolding of the interplay between language and the social across developments in sociological theory in subsequent eras, encompassing such strands as Marxism, functionalism, interactionism, anti-foundationalism, poststructuralism, critical theory, and critical realism. A final chapter turns its eye toward contemporary sociolinguistics and its treatment of different sociological perspectives and future directions for its continued development. // Reflecting on trajectories in sociological theory toward informing our understanding of the relationship between language and the social today, this book will be key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, and those working in sociology and geography with an interest in language issues.

Author : Rosalind Coward,John Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134997244

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Language and Materialism by Rosalind Coward,John Ellis Pdf

First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism — perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century. The authors describe the early presuppositions of structuralism and semiology which claim to be a materialist theory of language based on Saussure’s notion of the sign. They show how these presuppositions have been challenged by work following Althusser’s development of the Marxist theory of ideology, and by Lacan’s re-reading of Freud. The book explains how the encounter of two disciplines — psychoanalysis and Marxism — on the ground of their common problem —language — has produced a new understanding of society and its subjects. It produces a critical re-examination of the traditional Marxist theory of ideology, together with the concepts of sign and identity of the subject.

Author : Andaiye
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771135085

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The Point Is to Change the World by Andaiye Pdf

Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters, and journal entries, Andaiye’s thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class, and power are powerfully articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working Peopl’s Alliance, the meaning asnd impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye’s acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan and Robin DG Kelley, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to “overcome the power relations that are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives.”

Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101566992

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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones Pdf

A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.

Author : Gavin Kitching,Nigel Pleasants
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134538546

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Marx and Wittgenstein by Gavin Kitching,Nigel Pleasants Pdf

At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.

Author : Gavin Kitching
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317498834

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Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (RLE Marxism) by Gavin Kitching Pdf

In this major study, first published in 1988, Professor Kitching builds on recent scholarship on Marx and Wittgenstein to provide an incisive, readable account and critique of the whole of Marx’s work. He presents the philosophical, economic, and political Marx as one thinker, and argues that the key to understanding Marx is his commitment to a ‘philosophy of praxis’. This sees thought as just part of that purposive activity (or praxis) which distinguishes human beings from other creatures. This is the first book to analyse all of Marx’s thought from a Wittgenstein perspective; in doing so, it clarifies and deepens our understanding of Marx.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of Philosophy by Alan Woods Pdf

Alan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which looks at the real material world, not as a static immovable reality, but one that is constantly changing and moving according to laws that can be discovered. It is this method which allows Marxists to look at how things were, how they have become and how they are most likely going to be in the future, in a long process which started with the early primitive humans in their struggles for survival, through to the emergence of class societies, all as part of a process towards greater and greater knowledge of the world we live in. This long historical process eventually created the material conditions which allow for an end to class divisions and the flowering of a new society where humans will achieve true freedom, where no human will exploit another, no human will oppress another. Here we see how philosophy becomes an indispensable tool in the struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society.

Author : Teodor Ilʹich Oĭzerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : OCLC:688067854

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The making of the Marxist philosophy by Teodor Ilʹich Oĭzerman Pdf

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474280556

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How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy by Louis Althusser Pdf

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative and, often, controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher. Althusser argues that philosophy needs Marxism. It can't exist fully without it. Similarly, Marxism requires the rigour and structures of philosophy to give it form and focus. He calls all thinking people to, 'Remember: a philosopher is a man who fights in theory, and when he understands the reasons for this fight, he joined the ranks of the struggle of workers and popular classes.' In short, this book comprises Althusser's elucidation of what praxis means and why it continues to matter. With a superb introduction from translator and Althusser archivist G.M. Goshgarian, this is a book that will re-inspire contemporary Marxist thought and reinvigorate our notions of what political activism can be.

Author : V. Afanasyev,George H. Hanna,Leo Lempert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0898751489

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Marxist Philosophy by V. Afanasyev,George H. Hanna,Leo Lempert Pdf

To define the subject-matter of Marxist philosophy we must examine the range of questions it studies and find out what sets it apart from other sciences.Throughout the many centuries of the development of philosophy its subject-matter has changed constantly. At first it embraced all the knowledge accumulated at the time - knowledge of the world as a whole, of its separate objects and phenomena, the Earth, man, animals, minerals, etc. Then as production developed and scientific knowledge was accumulated, the particular sciences separated into such individual branches of knowledge as mechanics, physics, chemistry, geology, and history. The dozens of branches of sciences in existence today study the most diverse spheres of reality.The main subject-matter of Marxist philosophy is the solution of the fundamental philosophical question, the relation of consciousness to being. As we already know, all philosophical systems must answer this question, but the only completely scientific, correct , and consistent answer is furnished by Marxist philosophy.The philosophy of Marxism is called dialectical materialism. It materialist because in solving the fundamental question of philosophy it proceeds from the premise that matte and being are primary and consciousness is secondary. It recognizes the materiality and knowability of the world, and studies the world as it really is. Marxist philosophy is dialectical, because it examines the material world in constant motion, development and regeneration.

Author : Howard Selsam,Harry Martel
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0717801675

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Reader in Marxist Philosophy by Howard Selsam,Harry Martel Pdf

The basic philosophical thought of Marx, Engels and Lenin gathered together in the categories customary to Western philosophy.