This book represents the culmination of the life's work of one of Italy's foremost Marxist theorists. In it, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi illuminates the complex issues raised by the concept of "ideology." Through his penetrating analysis of the intimate relationship between language, consciousness, and power, his treatise not only offers a valuable review of the history of the notion of ideology and the debate surrounding it, but represents an original and comprehensive revision of the classic Marxist theory of ideology. While retaining the conceptual framework of historical materialism, the author addresses three major developments in post-war human sciences: the recognition of Marxism's shortcomings as a predictive and strictly empirical system of thought, the relativism which has invaded every academic discipline, and the emergence of semiology and linguistics as major fields of enquiry.

Marxism and Ideology (Marxist Introductions)

Politics & Social Sciences

GRIFFIN, ROGER

Rossi-Landi, Ferruccio

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Language as Work and Trade: A Semiotic Homology for Linguistics and Economics

Business & Money

Economics

Praeger

The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a collection of 14 articles by Rossi-Landi written between 1952 and 1984 and gives an overview of his contribution to the philosophy of language and his critique of Charles Morris, Wittgenstein, Bachtin, and his Italian contemporaries. It is in fact a project initiated by the author and now posthumously completed by the editor, with a complete bibliography of Rossi-Landi's extensive work. Susan Petrilli's Introduction gives a fresh view of the importance of Rossi-Landi's work to modern critical theory.

Between Signs and Non-Signs (Critical Theory)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity (Approaches to Semiotics/Paperback Series, 4)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Walter de Gruyter

Linguistics and Economics (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 81)

De Gruyter Mouton

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