V.N. Voloshinov: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, and Ideology
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Furlong from our Dialectics Deep Dive series returns to the show to discuss Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov, a Russian Soviet linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode we have back on the show |
| 0:10.7 | a fan favorite Matthew Furlong the RevLeft's resident philosopher to talk about the linguistic and |
| 0:19.8 | Marxist theories of the Russian Soviet linguist valentine and volition of and this is a really |
| 0:27.6 | interesting sort of deep dive into philosophy of language linguistics and Marxist analysis |
| 0:33.8 | dialectical materialism in particular that is very interesting and it's as always with these |
| 0:39.7 | philosophical deep dives sort of episodes can be challenging certainly if you don't have |
| 0:45.1 | any orientation towards linguistics of the philosophy of language this could be |
| 0:48.8 | slightly more difficult than some of our other episodes but people like the challenge I know |
| 0:53.9 | in some of these episodes people that are really into it and want to grasp it listen to it a couple |
| 0:58.0 | times to try to wrestle with the stuff that they might not have missed the first time but in any case |
| 1:03.9 | I think it's a really fascinating episode if you can if you can get into it and it gives us a lot |
| 1:09.6 | of food for thought and it covers sort of Soviet linguist and Marxist to that very few of you if |
| 1:16.4 | any of you have probably heard about I know I hadn't heard about them until Matthew recommended |
| 1:21.2 | diving into his work together on this episode so that's what this episode is about very interesting |
| 1:26.3 | anybody interested in language in the Marxist concept of ideology in you know linguistics in general |
| 1:33.3 | we we talk about all of it so without further ado here is my conversation with Matthew furlong |
| 1:38.6 | on the Russian Soviet linguist and Marxist valentine voloshenov enjoy |
| 1:58.0 | everyone this is Matthew back again with comrade breath this time no longer from Halifax but from |
| 2:12.1 | St. John's Newfoundland where I've returned to my home and today we're going to speak about a |
| 2:20.4 | Soviet thinker that we've talked about or I brought up a couple of times in the context of a |
| 2:26.7 | sort of three parter about some Soviet thinkers that I'm interested in bringing to the show and |
| 2:32.4 | this individual's name is valentine Nikolayevich voloshenov a Soviet linguist and philosopher of |
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