Download or read book Language and Revolution written by Igal Halfin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.