Salvador Pániker on humanism's need for linguistic reform.

Still, while a "linguistic turn" may have taken place, our syntactic habits have changed very little. And I'm only referring to that which can be understood. The previously-cited Heidegger, in his second period, claimed poetry—of whose supreme example would be Hölderlin—as a model for non-objectifying language, irreducible to a simple instrument of information. Unfortunately, Heidegger managed to so inebriate himself in the "poetic darkness" that he became hard to follow.

It's interesting that this article, published in the February 18 edition of Madrid's El Pais, refers to "the recently disappeared Richard Rorty", who officially died June 8. And this isn't the earliest anticipatory announcement of Rorty's finitude.  ¶ 3:06 PM