Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts.
Evidence
What is involved is the spread of a new ideology which undertakes to describe what is happening (and meant) by eliminating the concepts capable of understanding what is happening (and meant). — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662
Categorization
- DEFINE: Packs Marcuse’s whole charge against analytic philosophy into a single clause: description that functions by eliminating the concepts that could explain.
- XREF: connects to: Formalist language, emptied of content, gives rise to nominalism as bourgeois thought — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 66; Enlightenment eliminated negation from language, silencing the oppressed. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 791; Critical dialectical language exposes contradiction while Orwellian language hides it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 411 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it
#expands(0.90) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 652 - Austin’s speech-act theory smuggled nonlinguistic reality into philosophy under a linguistic name
#exemplifies(0.85) - Philosophical propositions destroy opinion by making it mean otherwise than intended
#exemplifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1214 - Ideology operates through language itself, not merely through false beliefs
#qualifies(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 698 - Concepts supposedly abolished in theory keep returning in altered form.
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 199