“Functional
language is an unhistorical language:
the tendency to identify things with their function destroys the meta-physical
grammar which had linked noun-subject-substance-essence, linked in such a
manner that the essence was the permanent First Principle. Ground, and Reason
of the entire structure. […] It may not be altogether fantastic to associate
the repression of development in the functionalized universe of discourse with
social repression.”
Herbert Marcuse, "Language and Technological Society"
(Boston, MA: Beacon Press), pp. 72-73.
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