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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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Elements of empirical language are manipulated in their rigidity, as if they were elements of a true and revealed language. The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

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The jargon of authenticity … is a trademark of societalized chosenness, … sub-language as superior language.

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The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno
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Born: September 11, 1903
Died: August 6, 1969 (aged 65)
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