Table of Contents

1. 'Chirac est un ver'
2. Critique of Linguistics
3. Critique of the Philosophy of Language
4. The Marxist Tradition
5. Continuations
6. Propositions (1)
7. Propositions (2)
Conclusion: Contrasting Short Glossaries of Philosophy of Language
References
Index

About the Author

J.J. Lecercle was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. From 1999 to 2002 he was research professor in the English department at the university of Cardiff, and he is currently professor of English at the university of Nanterre. He is the author of Interpretation as Pragmatics (Macmillan 1999), Deleuze and Language (Palgrave 2002) and The Force of Language (with Denise Riley, Macmillan 2004).

Reviews

"Lecercle’s book is definitely thought provoking [...]" - Piotr Stalmaszczyk, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 17 November 2010

"many excellent points [...] this book has to offer" - Peter Ives, in: Capital & Class 94:162-166