Language as a Command

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), Jawaharlal Nehru University , language: English, abstract: The intended idea of this paper is to understand language as a command or the most powerful ideology through which the mechanism of power and subordination is put into practice. Therefore, language cannot be seen as something that can be used by people to 'share' or 'communicate' their thoughts coherently with the other, for the very idea of 'sharing' and 'communication' does not bring out the politics of two identical terms - I and you - which are prominent in everyday speech in which 'being' is expected to be identified with the features of imposed categories of 'binary classificatory system'. Consequently, paper goes on to discuss the very inability to experience 'communication' in everyday speech, except in literature through writing.