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“There is a human reification needing an eschatological regression.”

Human Regression Reification Eschatological

Author:Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

“In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his “bad desires” as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.”

Sin Criticism Critics Vice Reification

Book:L'Unique et sa proprlete

Source: L'Unique et sa proprlete

“Elevated to the status of a credit subject, the consumer believes [in the myth of credit] to see in this fact his own human realization and that of his social dignity. The commodity fetishism embodies in his person as the fetish of being, to whom credit gives a sensible and objective reality: the consumer sees himself in credit as in a mirror reflecting all the human attributes emanating from possession - respectability, honesty, occupational activity, recognized and weighed by social consensus...”

Alienation Political Economy Commodity Fetishism Consumer Capitalism False Consciousness Marxist Theory Reification Capitalism And Identity Credit Economy Modern Capitalism

Author:José Revueltas

“This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.”

Technology Alienation Spectacle Reification

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.”

Mechanism Projection Cognition Reification Extension Fallacy

Book:The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization

Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization

“Although the discussions of quietism and nihilism conveyed by the Jesuits during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries paved the way for Western characterizations of Buddhism, only during the nineteenth century was Buddhism definitively constituted as an obiect of discourse and "reified as a textual object" (Almond 1988, 139). This textualization permitted the emergence of the "historical" Buddha and the convenient opposition between a pure, canonical, early Buddhism and the degenerate Buddhist religion of contemporary Asia (Almond 1988, 25, 37-40).”

Buddhism Reification

Book:Chan Insights and Oversights

Source: Chan Insights and Oversights