2016 - 2017

0618-3006-01
  Marxism and the Philosophy of Language                                                               
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Anat MatarGilman-humanities320Tue0800-1200 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description
Language was traditionally conceived as a passive tool for representing the world, residing in the mind and enabling individuals to transmit their thoughts to others. This picture has begun to lose its hold even before the 20th century, but in the last century it was replaced by detailed alternative pictures of language, which emphasized its social character and essential relation to action and to engagement in the world, to praxis.
Only a few Marxist theoreticians devoted serious discussions to the conception of language suitable for Marxism. During the seminar we’ll read several such Marxist texts; we’ll also try to examine the extent to which Wittgensteinian conceptions of language-as-action could be suitable candidates to fill the lacuna.

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