Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it
Evidence
Paying respect to the prevailing variety of meanings and usages, to the power and common sense of ordinary speech, while blocking (as extraneous material) analysis of what this speech says about the society that speaks it, linguistic philosophy suppresses once more what is continually suppressed in this universe of discourse and behavior. The authority of philosophy gives its blessing to the forces which make this universe. Linguistic analysis abstracts from what ordinary language reveals in speaking as it does—the mutilation of man and nature. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 652
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that philosophy ‘gives its blessing to the forces which make this universe’ by licensing ordinary language is a dense inversion of what linguistic analysis claims to be doing.
- XREF: connects to: Derrida’s politics lack rational grounding because his language philosophy denies discourse-world relations.; Slang and colloquial speech resist official one-dimensional discourse. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 378; Critical dialectical language exposes contradiction while Orwellian language hides it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 411 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Everyday speech conceals society’s domination over language as hidden meaning
#corroborates(0.88) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 669 - Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts.
#corroborates(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662 - Ordinary-language philosophy cannot validate meaning because speech encodes manipulated contradictions
#expands(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 699 - Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts
#complicates(0.78) - Popular-consciousness language cannot reveal underlying causes of social trends
#contradicts(0.75)