Bodies of Meaning

Download or read book Bodies of Meaning written by David McNally and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.