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Enlightenment dissolves away the injustice of the old inequality of unmediated mastery,
yes!
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. Each human being has been endowed with a self of his or her own, different from all others, so that it could all the more surely be made the same.
enlightenment throughout the liberalistic period has always sympathized with social coercion.
i mean, commmidification of culture maybe. coercion as putting place frameworks of medicine and social frameworks less?
The horde, a term which doubtless* is to be found in the Hitler Youth organization, is not a relapse into the old barbarism but the triumph of repressive égalité,
The fake myth of fascism reveals itself as the genuine myth of prehistory, in that the genuine myth beheld retribution while the false one wreaks it blindly on its victims.
Under the leveling rule of abstraction, which makes everything in nature repeatable, and of industry, for which abstraction prepared the way, the liberated finally themselves become the “herd” (Trupp), which Hegel16 identified as the outcome of enlightenment.
The concept, usually defined as the unity of the features of what it subsumes, was rather, from the first, a product of dialectical thinking, in which each thing is what it is only by becoming what it is not.
Enlightenment is mythical fear radicalized.
come on srsly
than a form of universal taboo.
presumably by denying the thing in itself and defining that thing in terms of its fungibility, as constitution as a resource or capability of belonging to a category.
The step from chaos to civilization, in which natural conditions exert their power no longer directly but through the consciousness of human beings,
The very renunciation of external effects by which art is distinguished from magical sympathy binds art only more deeply to the heritage of magic.
The work of art constantly reenacts the duplication by which the thing appeared as something spiritual, a manifestation of mana. That constitutes its aura.
art. Where it restricted knowledge, it generally did so to make room for faith, not art.
The attempt made by faith under Protestantism to locate the principle of truth, which transcends faith and without which faith cannot exist, directly in the word itself, as in primeval times, and to restore the symbolic power of the word, was paid for by obedience to the word, but not in its sacred form.
yes! something i agree with here. see stevenson' shepherd. the birth of the literate mobilised working class was protestantism?
Because faith is unavoidably tied to knowledge as its friend or its foe, faith perpetuates the split in the struggle to overcome knowledge: its fanaticism is the mark of its untruth, the objective admission that anyone who only believes for that reason no longer believes.
The paradox of faith degenerates finally into fraud, the myth of the twentieth century* and faith’s irrationality into rational organization in the hands of the utterly enlightened as they steer society toward barbarism.
Even the deductive form of science mirrors hierarchy and compulsion. Just as the first categories represented the organized tribe and its power over the individual, the entire logical order, with its chains of inference and dependence, the superordination and coordination of concepts, is founded on the corresponding conditions in social reality, that is, on the division of labor.
the *entire* logical order based on these principles - the principles of hierarchy and power, and ordering and obedience.
The power of all the members of society, to whom as individuals no other way is open, is constantly summated, through the division of labor imposed on them,
fair
Concepts in face of enlightenment are like those living on unearned income in face of industrial trusts:*
is tbis like saying its ok to have buklshit like this
already equates probability with essence.
sgats!
