A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

But where did our philosopher find this sentence, which he did not invent? In a primary school manual, where its simplicity and ...

Methodological individualism in linguistic matters has at least one advantage: it readily explains the construction of the meani ...

prevents her from counter-interpellating it, from playing with it by playing on the proverb. Nothing prevents me from saying, wh ...

Chapter Seven Propositions (2) Propositions (II) Third positive thesis: language is a material phenomenon At first sight, this ...

and Guattari’s concept of collective assemblage of enunciation, which (it will be remembered) is characterised by an ontological ...

and Johnson, who take their distance from phenomenology, in that they employ a concept of the unconscious, which is nevertheless ...

proves to be an abstract ideal construct. And it also enables us to avoid the ‘principle of immanence’ on which structuralist li ...

language; and that of Jeanne Favret-Saada on sorcery in the copse (where language is very directly involved).^7 This is an impre ...

Central to the critical materialism that informs this book... is the insistence that the concrete bodies, practices, and desires ...

And we are not far removed from the pathos of the incipitof Anti-Oedipus, where the body evoked shits and fucks. At this stage, ...

regulated behaviours, material transformations – the Althusserian definition of practice – and communication which is communicat ...

Fourth positive thesis: language is a political phenomenon This thesis appears to be self-evident and possibly also a paradox. ...

as the way to defuse antagonisms. This position is familiar to us: it grounds the distinction in Habermas between communicative ...

that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in thesematters tha ...

a polis. I am aware that if this polishas something to do with the nation-state of our modernity, it is not reducible to it: the ...

to a process of continuous variation is to speak the language of A Thousand Plateaus: we detect an echo of the concepts of ‘mino ...

Revel.^18 I am not going to go into the divergences between these analyses here, or the polemics they provoked, and will rapidly ...

adapted very well to the patois when it needed to make itself understood: it said mass in Latin and prayers in the patois. Final ...

We have noted that the dialect known as Low Breton, the Basque dialect, and the German and Italian languages have prolonged the ...

throughout the world, only 130 are national languages – that is, if we accept the most current definition, the official language ...