“Compared
with these constructions, the non-functional substantive, the noun-subject, and
the demonstrative and narrative predication are rather abstract forms; they
express the transcending universality of the concept, the ‘excess’ of its
intent over the term (word) in current usage: thus they retain the tension
between the particular and the genus, which is greatly attenuated in the
functional construction. […] The grammatical form thus retains the dialectical
distinction between the subject and its functions; the proposition contains the
negation of the given fact: it links that which is happening to the conditions
which made it happen, and allows the reader or listener to follow and reconstruct
the development.”
Herbert Marcuse, "Language and Technological Society"
(Boston, MA: Beacon Press), p. 72.
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