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“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects. but the relationships of human beings, including the relationship of individuals to themselves, have themselves been bewitched by the objectification of mind. Individuals shrink to the nodal points of conventional reactions and the modes of operation objectively expected of them. Animism had endowed things with souls; industrialism makes souls into things.”

Quote by Max Horkheimer

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

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German philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of the Frankfurt School. Max Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895, and died on July 7, 1973. He had a profound influence on philosophy, sociology, and critical theory. more

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