LINGUISTIC TURNS 1890

Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work o f Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsc i, 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 vol ume chan...[Read more]