“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.” GivingShowsPoliticalPurposeSocialOpinionGreaterAmountExerciseDemandAuthorityVoteFoundationRationalAbstractManipulationSpheresPublic Opinion Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.” PeopleHumansIndividualSocialHuman NatureTheoryBehaviorModelsEconomicsComplexesObservationLimitationBehaveRelyAbstractSubtleGroundedFree MarketRationalismSocial BehaviorCrackpots Author:Ellen Willis
“I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.” WantSocialViewsStruggleAliveAreasOneselfRangeAbstractFairytaleOutcastStaying AliveSocial Outcast Author:Gunter Brus
“The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.” HandsLawSocialClassToolsAbstractSocial Class Author:Josephine Herbst
“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.” WayNeedsMeanMomentsCharacterIndividualSocialQualityRelationSatisfactionRecognitionAbstractIsolatedConcreteCommerceAbstractionReciprocalUniversality Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right