...Stathis Gourgouris “Cavafy's Debt” is an examination of poetic indebtedness in a context that defies calculation. What do societies owe to their poets? What does it mean for societies to lay claim to poets? What do poets owe to their language? What does it mean for poetry to exist beyond its...

... existence. To establish the contours of society and exploit the value of the social sciences, however, Qu as a translator struggled against China's written language in the name of sociology and social justice. In this regard, Qu understood that the diglossic literary language harbored ancient “ghosts...

...Jonathan Arac With reference to the author’s experience with English and other languages, this essay reflects on the problem of American monolingualism and explores modes of learned critical attention to the work language does in society, examining writing by Kenneth Burke, Raymond Williams, Erich...

... political use of these words may be identified as “manipulative” and elicit reactions accordingly, the majority of the words are nonetheless perceived as entirely “neutral.” In any event, they are words that seize upon and configure public language, imposing a broad set of prejudices upon popular...

...Mouldi Guessoumi Humanity has always needed a grammar to trace the specific substance of its factual history, from the advent of communicative language up to and including modern revolutionary events. Moreover, all revolutions throughout history have gone through the same stages to arrive finally...

... and categorizations for describing China's political and social formations, and to develop a more nuanced critical language for the complexities of contemporary Chinese society. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered...

... Sassoon) orchestrate a Gramscian con- cern with language, the character and relationship of coercion to consent, the position of intellectuals, and the imperative to rethink reductive con- ceptions of civil society in relation to the State. In any study of the power of media culture...

.... Michael Meeker, A Nation of Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 44. 41. İlker Aytürk, “The First Episode of Language Reform in Republican Turkey: The Lan- guage Council from 1926 to 1931,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series 18, no. 3 (2008): 275–93. The full...

... in “Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures” for a return to a radi- cal philology as a mode of rehistorizing world literary space—that is to say, as a renewal of “a radically historical understanding of language and the forms of its institution in literature, culture, and society.”8...

... the “class” language when the society itself was undergoing a rapid process of capitalization, and when “class,” no longer an empty signifier, 10. See Andrew Walder, “Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform,” China Quarterly, no. 118 (1989): 242–64; and Sally Sargeson, Reworking China’s Proletariat...

... and function that language plays in the essay. Lu Xun’s constant inveighing against the autocracy of mass society and his determination to stand against the “hypocritical gentry” and its efforts to extirpate superstition, for instance, are cases in point. His claims...

... Scientific Worldview and Modern Society The extensive application of the concept of science is one of the main characteristics of Chinese thought in the twentieth century. Since the late Qing dynasty, science has served as a symbol of and a call for lib- eration, as well...

... in the discourse arise because political economists are speaking “the language of commodities.” In this sense, Marx's “science” is the practice of translation. Building on the grounding insight that scientific knowledge descends into ideology by misrecognizing the correct terrain of its concepts, Marx's writings...

... a historical failure because they could not through a Eurocentric Marxian framework deal with the central problems of identity or communal politics in their respective societies; (2) the way to reinherit non-European critical theoretical frameworks is to claim postcolonial and decolonial discourses...

... context, Wang begins by addressing the convoluted archaic language that Lu Xun chose for his writing, demonstrating that this choice represented the writer's protest against the calcification that he saw as having come to characterize all registers of Chinese written expression—the ordinary classical used...

... outside the quite narrowly American (or Western) context in which it is often represented. My claim here will be that Language as a “movement” may rather be seen as related to, and reacting against, the structures and mentality of the Cold War and the Twentieth-Century Mass Communication Society...

..., as is already mentioned, it had a crucial political function in the peace movement. In comparison to feminism within the Yugoslav socialism, post-Yugoslav feminism as a part of constituting of civil society, and the NGO sector, proliferated during 1990s. Feminist activism tended to embrace more and more women...

... of language.”11 The centrality of the domain of linguistics to the formation of communism, including the role of language, philosophy, and critical thought, lends power to translation and aesthetics as forces contributing to the transformation of society. According to this schema, Groys argues...

... and disintegration as morally uplifting, authenticity is increasingly valued even as the avant-garde rejects society as insincere and hypocritical. Anderson’s dream of a universal language is informed by late Vic- torian English liberalism, a grand language that accommodates, tolerates, and includes...

... / Spring 2013 that the unintelligibility of mystical language is not socially readable—as, after all, Michel de Certeau has inimitably shown. It is to say that, how- ever society might be able to read this unintelligibility, it nonetheless cannot but turn it into an idol, thereby turn against...