Radical linguistic discipline both destroys reified language and submits to a purer one
Evidence
The technique of concatenation, achieved through strict outward form, and modelled on Pindar and other Greek poets, was a convincing example of how extreme linguistic discipline could lead to the liberation of something one apparently only needed to submit oneself to. Destroying language and submitting oneself to it thus appeared to be one and the same thing. But
language' was being used in two different senses here. What was to be destroyed was everyday, communicative, reified language. The language one was to submit oneself to was a different one. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2250</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)
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 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
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 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 662; For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2250; Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 652 (+1 more)
Related
- For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide (similarity 0.89)
- Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. (similarity 0.83)
- For Adorno, language exists only insofar as subjective consciousnesses are free. (similarity 0.81)
- Ordinary language is already purged of expressive means by society (similarity 0.80)
- Language itself has become a site where reified theory falsifies lived experience (similarity 0.80)
- Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2250 - Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it
#qualifies(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 652 - Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts.
#contradicts(0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662