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| The Isomorphs between Critique of Everyday Language and Critique of Modernity——A Study on Lefevere’s Marxist Philosophy of Language |
| YUAN Wen-bin |
| School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060 |
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Abstract Henri Lefebvre’s critique of language plays a very pivotal role, which is the continuation of his critique of everyday life, and the illumination towards his critique of production of space. Human history is one of forgetting human everyday life; human history of language is one of leaving behind human everyday language. In this case, Lefebvre proclaims a linguistic turn such as alchemic poesis by James Joyce, Mallarmé, instead of logical/structural one advocated by Wittgenstein and Saussure. Formalism, functionalism and structuralism have been reprimanded by Lefebvre as the basis of terrorist society, for it has created a false consciousness in which simulation and simulacra are composed of a variety of signs. It is the false consciousness that makes the space of communicative zero space which is a flat one without a sense of depth and history. Lefebvre does not hold a pessimistic attitude, and it is in the ruins of everyday life that he witnesses the hope of rescue, in this sense, there is a logical conformity among his critique of everyday language, Benjamin’s pure language, and Umberto Eco’s perfect language. The isomorph between the critique of language and that of modernity is self-evident. Lefebvre has rewritten Marx’s “labor liberation” in terms of discursive “liberation narrative”, illuminating Guy Debord’s society of spectacles, de Certeau’s critique of everyday practice and Baudrillard’s critique of political economy of the sign.
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Received: 25 March 2017
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[2] Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space[M]. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell. 1991.
[3] Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life in the Modern World[M]. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. 1984. |
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2017, Vol. 34 
