Bodies of Meaning
Subtitle: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791447369
Subjects: Political science & theory; Postmodernism; Mind & Body; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; General; Body, Human; Body, Human (Philosophy); Social aspects
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.