The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason..

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it….

Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exc….

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all..

Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being….

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate str….

In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is i….

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality..

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves..

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it..

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment..

Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the pr….

The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make….

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and….

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning..

the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal de….

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left..

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral..

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressive….

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization.