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Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject

By (author) Rosalind Coward, By (author) John Ellis

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First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism â€” perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century. The authors describe the early presuppositions of structuralism and semiology which claim to be a materialist theory of language based on Saussureâ€™s notion of the sign. They show how these presuppositions have been challenged by work following Althusserâ€™s development of the Marxist theory of ideology, and by Lacanâ€™s re-reading of Freud. The book explains how the encounter of two disciplines â€” psychoanalysis and Marxism â€” on the ground of their common problem â€”language â€” has produced a new understanding of society and its subjects. It produces a critical re-examination of the traditional Marxist theory of ideology, together with the concepts of sign and identity of the subject.

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