Herbert Marcuse Quote

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.


p. 103 - One-Dimensional Man (1964)


This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images...

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images...

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images...

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images...