A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

double determination precludes any conception of language as an instrument of communication, in the service of an already consti ...

a threat to one another. This situation is due to a phenomenon of alienation (‘We are so estranged from our human essence...’), ...

as we have seen with Engels, is not bereft of speech: but Marx is in the process of defining the concept of ‘social relation’); ...

to conceptualise them in the form of ideas which are only the immaterial, abstract aspect of language. This is where a concept t ...

Language features twice in this text. In its own right, first of all, as a term of comparison: like value, it is a ‘social produ ...

Lenin Lenin’s contribution to thinking about language is not limited to the marginal note that we have already cited. In truth ...

the conjuncture in which the utterance is produced: the meaning is the result of a power relationship: not of a co-operative lan ...

As is well known, Deleuze and Guattari read Lenin on slogans in one of the chapters of A Thousand Plateaus.^41 They are fascinat ...

follower, like Saussure’s Course, is of little importance: ‘Althusser’ is here the name of a collective assemblage of enunciatio ...

level of the concrete analysis of the social formation; and the level of the tactical and strategic analysis that determines the ...

force and the performative character of language assume a new meaning. We are dealing with a power that is collectively exercise ...

interpretation of the text of the situation: this interpretation is correct because it is adequate to the moment of the conjunct ...

of speakers); the state of the language (sedimentation of the history of the community of speakers: taken together, the language ...

Chapter Five Continuations We have arrived at the point where the tradition becomes a diaspora. Henceforth, Marxism is declined ...

Published in the USSR in 1930 under the name of Voloshinov, it has been known in the West since 1973 in an English translation t ...

embodies the social agon, for words are traces of the ideological struggles that have been conducted by them and for them; it is ...

assume their meaning in the use made of them; they carry with them a history; they have an ideological and political content). T ...

concept of consciousness thus defined, if not a complete philosophical novelty, then at least highly original: (i) consciousness ...

that it can take on in my utterance. Things are clear when it is a question of ideologically charged signs; and everyone knows t ...

us miss the train. And we can finish by observing, with Canetti,^9 that questions are never innocent: in as much as they demand ...