Critique reduces to critiquing the social process itself

Evidence

All that remains is to criticise the social process in its own right, including as it manifests itself in the degeneration of ‘language as the organon of thought’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1107

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Language as organon of thought’ — the Adornian notion that language is an instrument/medium of thinking, whose social degeneration is itself an object of critique.
• XREF: connects to: Radicalism among critics is reduced to abstract prestige within an allotted pattern — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 228; In social theory, recognition of facts is critique of facts — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 459; Immanent critique must combine internal analysis with an external social perspective — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 52 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Immanent critique must combine internal analysis with an external social perspective #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 52
• Critiques conducted within political discourse reinforce the system they claim to scrutinize #exemplifies (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 446
• Authentic cultural criticism requires simultaneous participation and detachment #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 55