“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.” WorldFatherEffortPracticeIdeologyRebellionPossessedReplacedCropsAdjustment Author:Max Horkheimer
“Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.” MenWorldWayHas BeensReasonRealitySeemsActionSocialInterestJudgmentTasksUltimatePassingPassingsOur WorldTrendsAbandonedPreferenceSanctionsPassing Judgment Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldIdeasSoulCareGivenCausesDifferencesDarkNumbersBehindsConceptsMurderCeaseTendenciesSubstanceSignificanceSensibleEntityMetaphysicalFrontiers Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.” WorldDoePerceptionConnectionsPhysicsComplexity Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays
“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.” WorldIndividualFateIllusionEvidenceFavorsMetaphysicalBourgeoisEmpirical Evidence Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays
