1. Heidegger’s conception of truth as uncovering through logos could be likened to saying what you see or “telling it how it is”, fundamentally conservative ways of existing. Uncovering through speech is a precondition of Aristotle’s truth, a correspondence theory.
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2. The correspondence between statement and actuality. Heidegger seeks to conserve language and so conserve the truth. This strikes me as poetic, with poetry being the most precise deployment of language. It also strikes me, contra Adorno, to be anti-jargon.
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3. The Nazis, being revolutionaries, were very fond of mutilating German with ugly jargon and euphemisms. It’s a condition they shared with the Soviets, which is why poets tended to get shot in Russia. Poets are truth conservers, as they are undertaking primordial uncovering.
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4. “Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed,” wrote Mandelstam. This is because poetry is primordial truth. Die Weiße Rose resistance group took its name from a 19th century poem. Those close to poetry are compelled to speak against totalitarianism.
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5. So, against Adorno, Heidegger is actually anti-jargon. His analysis of language probably influenced Arendt’s view of totalitarianism. And what about our contemporary world? We labour under jargon that conceals: “diversity”, “inclusion”, “undocumented migrants”...
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6. ...”collateral damage”, “humanitarian intervention”. These prevent us from seeing. In this respect, Trump is anti-totalitarian. His speech, though ugly, tends to reveal. By saying, “illegal immigrant” he states the situation as it is.
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7. This is not sufficient to make a political judgement about immigration. Perhaps the laws these people break are unjust. But it is a precondition of understanding and discussing those laws that we state things “as they are”, i.e. that migrants are breaking the law.
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