Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

Volo∫inov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and may others. Volo∫invo is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to construct a new kind of field: semiotics or textual theory. Matejka and Titunik have provided a new preface to discuss Volo∫inov in relation to the great resurgence of interest in all the writing of the circle of Mikhail Bakhtin.