Nathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Blochs contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Blochs ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Blochs utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinovs insights into language through Blochs categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Bloch’s Marxism
2 Philosophy of Language as a Problem
3 Outline of the Book
1 Bloch’s Utopian Materialism
1 Kant ‘Burning’ through Hegel
2 Tendency
3 Possibility
4 Latency
2 Bloch’s Anacoluthon
1 The Anacoluthon
2 The Anacoluthon as Trace
3 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Tendency
4 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Latency
3 Bloch and Marxist Philosohpy of Language
1 Voloshinov and Relationality
2 Refraction
3 Neo-Kantianism
4 Freudianism
4 Bloch and Fascism
1 Marx’s Incipit
2 The Eighteenth Brumaire
3 The Expressionism Debate
4 Fascism and Language, Then and Now: Postscript
References
Index
Nathaniel J.P. Barron, Ph.D. (2018), University of Central Lancashire, is Teaching Fellow in Social Theory at the University of Birmingham.
