Title: Bodies of Meaning
First published: November 2000
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.
Subjects: Social aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Human body, Postmodernism, Human body, social aspects