Linguaggio e ideologia nella metodica filosofica di Ferruccio Rossi-Landi

Ferruccio Rossi-Landi founds a historical-materialist semiotic on the grounds of a demystifying criticism to both, the approaches the second Wittgenstein brought up, as well as the Linguistics as this was posited by Saussure. While the Rossi-Landi ' s Semiotics is no doubt dwelling on Marx' s criticism to the ideology, herewith the concept of ideology as such comes out certainly implemented in light of Rossi-Landi ' s views, as he hinged them within the dominant linguistic Kehre taking place in the twentieth century. In deeming the thought to a process closely related to speech, this reassuming ideas formulated either in Saussure and in Wittgenstein, Rossi-Landi regarded the ideology foremost as a phenomenon of linguistic nature. Drawing from a semiotic stance, thus, Rossi-Landi addresses and successfully overcomes the theoretical weaknesses as these may come in the critical paradigm of marxist ideology. The detractors of Marxism claim that Marxism fails when it comes to give full account of the issue of ideology, namely, because of ignoring the “symbolic action” as a fundamental alongside practice. Contrarily, Rossi-Landi conceives the ideology foremost as a semiotic process, paying particular attention to the mechanisms accountig for the production of meaning – as these are somewhat vanquished in Marxist theory - . Despite having roots in the Marxian framework, Rossi-Landi ' s views on the ideology are original and innovative. Regardless of some declaring Marxism almost dead, the reading of Rossi-Landi' s works enables us to reappreciate the value of the Marxist criticisms to the ideology. Rossi-Landi comes up with a methodology by virtue of which it is still possible to describe the reality beyond its phenomenical appearance.