"Thus, the far, New New Left has turned logocentrism on its head, jettisoning one sense of it for another, truer sense of the word. The new form seeks knowledge not *through* language, but *in* language." Language is not a tool, for them. It is the construction material
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People see the authoritarian responses to speech, They see them as a form of extremism and intuit that this" seems extreme from more than just a general sense of absurdity, of “going too far”" but they don't always understood what underlies this extremism.
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Which is this belief that language constructs reality. What Adler is calling 'logocentric leftism.' "It seems extreme precisely because the contention over language, this logocentric battle, originates in a reconceived relationship between language and the world."
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Adler goes on to show how this has affected our understanding of 'violence', the role of provocation in activism and the 'flattening' of distinctions in terminology which we need to discuss things. I shall return & break these sections down later.
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