Language in Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism

By: Barron, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch's contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch's ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch's utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov's insights into language through Bloch's categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004680586
• ISBN13: 9789004680586
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 224 Pages