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Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950 - Writing on Language as Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950 - Writing on Language as Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of
early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of
Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer,
Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel,
Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to
invest 'language' with extraordinary force, at a time when the
social and political order of the continent was itself in question.
By examining linguistic turns in concert rather than in isolation,
the volume changes the way we see them-no longer simply as moves in
individual disciplines, but as elements of a larger constellation,
held together by common concerns and anxieties. In a series of
detailed readings, the volume reveals how each linguistic turn
invested 'language as such' with powers that could redeem not just
individual disciplines but Europe itself. It shows how, in the
hands of different writers, language becomes a model of social and
political order, a tool guaranteeing analytical precision, a
vehicle of dynamic change, a storehouse of mythical collective
energy, a template for civil society, and an image of justice
itself. By detailing the force linguistic turns attribute to
language, and the way in which they contrast 'language as such'
with actual language, the volume dissects the investments made in
words and sentences and the visions behind them. The constellation
of linguistic turns is explored as an intellectual event in its own
right and as the pursuit of social theory by other means.
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