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Gregor McLennan, Jean Grimshaw, Nöel Parker, Terry Eagleton, Nigel Ambrose, Graham McCann, Stuart Sim, Margaret Atack, John Tomlinson, Gregory Claeys, Andrew Dobson, Sean Sayers, Paul Bagguley, Neil Duxbury, John Fauvel and Richard Montgomery ~ RP 050 (Autumn 1988) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS I I I ~~~~~~t L———_ _ _ ~ ___ J THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM DEBATE S. H. Rigby, Marxism and History: a Critical Introduction, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1987, 314pp., £29.95 hb. Derek Sayer, The Violence ofAbstraction: the Analytic F oundationsofHistoricaIMaterialism,Oxford,Blackwell, 1987,xiiiand 173pp., £22.50 hb. Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social […]

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Gregory Claeys, Hugh Tomlinson, Roy Bhaskar, Russell Keat, Pete Stirk and Christine Loveland ~ RP 025 (Summer 1980) ~ Reviews

opposition to all the other terms’, Saussure, p88}, there is ‘an incessant sliding of the signified under the signifier’ {Lacan, p154}. However, Saussure distinguishes the syntagmatic axis of language from the paradigmatic or associative. Syntagmatic is the linear dimension of language most apparent in the sentence, the ‘horizontal’ chain in which meaning is sequentially differentiated […]