Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950: Writing on Language as Social Theory

by Ken Hirschkop

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019874577X
• ISBN13: 9780198745778
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"