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Language Quotes by Herbert Marcuse
- The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of…
- The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
- This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies…
- Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of…
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