The established language already contains the terms for its own critique
Evidence
The desideratum is rather to make the established language itself speak what it conceals or excludes, for what is to be revealed and denounced is operative within the universe of ordinary discourse and action, and the prevailing language contains the metalanguage. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 702
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines how Marcuse’s ‘metalanguage’ differs from a technical/logical metalanguage — it must be immanent to ordinary language, not constructed outside it.
- XREF: Echoes Wittgenstein’s ‘language itself contains the ladder’ and anticipates Derrida’s critique of metalanguage as always inside language. — connects to: Pastiche enters where language’s failure to coincide with objects has already been structured. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 330; Critiques conducted within political discourse reinforce the system they claim to scrutinize — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 446; Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1161 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1161 - Critiques conducted within political discourse reinforce the system they claim to scrutinize
#exemplifies(0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 446 - Every person already philosophizes; critique must renovate existing thought
#corroborates(0.82) - Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names
#exemplifies(0.80) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 435 - Pastiche enters where language’s failure to coincide with objects has already been structured.
#expands(0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 330 - Closed language validates itself through tautology and command rather than argument
#complicates(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 414