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Philip Hogh & Adrian Wilding

In: The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Chapter 74: Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language1

Edited by: Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld & Chris O’Kane

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436122.n74

Subject: German Social Theory, Critical Theory

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Hogh, P. & Wilding, A. (2018). Critical theory and the philosophy of language. In B. BestW. Bonefeld & C. O’Kane The sage handbook of frankfurt school critical theory (Vol. 3, pp. 1223-1237). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n74

Hogh, Philip and Adrian Wilding. "Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language1." In The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, 1223-1237. 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n74.

Hogh, P & Wilding, A 2018, 'Critical theory and the philosophy of language1', in The sage handbook of frankfurt school critical theory, SAGE Publications Ltd, 55 City Road, London, pp. 1223-1237, viewed 13 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n74.

Hogh, Philip and Adrian Wilding. "Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language1." The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Beverley BestWerner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane. Vol. 3. 55 City Road: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. 1223-1237. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 13 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n74.

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Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language1
Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language
Philip Hogh Adrian Wilding
Introduction

From its beginnings up to the present day, language has played a central role in critical theory. Walter Benjamin’s early essay ‘On Language as Such and on the Language of Man’ and Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action differ widely in both methodological and thematic terms, yet both explore the resources through which language can offer an emancipatory critique of capitalist society. The differences in philosophical approach of the respective critical theorists can be traced to the philosophy of language which each confronted in their day. If Benjamin’s reflections engage with motifs from the Kabbalah, with Karl Kraus’s language criticism2 and, ...

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