| Gareth Stedman Jones - History - 1983 - 276 pages
...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves. We need to map out these successive languages of radicalism, liberalism, socialism etc.,... | |
| Aletta Biersack - Social Science - 1989 - 256 pages
...moving away from a Marxist analysis. As he himself maintains in his introduction, "We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...which conceives and defines interest in the first place."17 Can such a radical displacement of the Marxist agenda still be considered Marxist? The challenge... | |
| Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves.5 As Joan Scott has remarked, Stedman Jones himself fails to pay sufficient attention to... | |
| Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Ronald Grigor Suny - History - 1994 - 420 pages
...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves."13 This tentative foray into (Saussurian) linguistic theory was intended as a challenge... | |
| Joan Wallach Scott - History - 1996 - 250 pages
...Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. xx: "We cannot . . . decode political language to reach...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves." 66. "A ceux qui nous accuseront d'être exclusifs, de faire de la question des femmes... | |
| Richard W. Schoch - Drama - 1998 - 240 pages
...expressions cannot be decoded in order to arrive at a primary essence since, as Gareth Stedman Jones argues, 'it is the discursive structure of political language...conceives and defines interest in the first place'.« Theatrical medievalism does not, I contend, manifest the essentialized political interests of unitary... | |
| Ellen Meiksins Wood - Philosophy - 1998 - 228 pages
...You-Know-Where', New Left Review 148. November-December 1984. pp. 22-3. expression.'2 His response is that 'We cannot . . . decode political language to reach...which conceives and defines interest in the first place.'3 Now let us see what these propositions mean. Let us, for the sake of argument - and neither... | |
| Eric Van Young - History - 2001 - 722 pages
...Stedman Jones on the relationship of ideas and discourse to material interest: "We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...conceives and defines interest in the first place;" Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge, 1983), 22.... | |
| Jörg Neuheiser, Stefan Wolff - History - 2002 - 264 pages
...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...political language which conceives and defines interest itself. (StedmanJones 1983: 2 If.) Clearly, Stedman-Jones's definition of how interests and communal... | |
| Colin Jones, Dror Wahrman - History - 2002 - 326 pages
...prefiguring Scott's feminist critique of "experience," Stedman Jones wrote that "we cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...the discursive structure of political language which conceived and denned interest in the first place," a point that sounded the trumpet for the conceptual... | |
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