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performative empowerment

ebrahim

Senior Member
Persian
Hello,
What the extra information after the em dash is actually for? Is that all elaborating on the 'force'?


"Hitler did not invite his inner circle to share in blind fanaticism so much as to enjoy language that wields force— performative empowerment on both rhetorical and political registers that used conventional modes of legitimation insofar as they were available but derived its hiddenmost and deepest joy in the fortified groundlessness of its own speech."

On Hitler's Mein Kampf, Albrecht Koschorke
Everything up to the "insofar"

What follows the "insofar" is editorializing. It should really be in parentheses if I am reading it correctly.
I mean how are the phrases before and after the em dash is related. Does anyone else have any idea?
I read it as an appositive, i.e. explaining "language that wields force"

I can see how it's confusing, since it seems to me that the definition is more arcane than the expression itself.👁 Smile :)


As a side note, I don't envy you for tackling that difficult-to-read treatise. Good luck!!👁 Smile :)
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I mean how are the phrases before and after the em dash is related. Does anyone else have any idea?

I was affirming what you had said in your original post. The "force" wielded is the theater of it all.
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