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Article: Freeing Language from Capitalistic Post-Modernism.(Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation)(Review)
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- September 1, 2001
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David McNally
Bodies Of Meaning: Studies On Language, Labor And Liberation New York State University Press
In the last few years there have been several excellent attempts to criticize post-modernism. The works of Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, David Harvey and Frederick Jamieson spring to mind. David McNally takes this process a step further by sketching a highly original materialist theory of language as an alternative to post-modernism.
In his quest for such a theory McNally returns to the texts of the Soviet critics Voloshinov and Bakhtin to insist that language can only be understood as social and concrete rather than as an individualized ...