Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 19, 1898 Death: June 29, 1979
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world..
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of societ….
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man..
The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become th….
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of ….
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is ….
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence..
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it de….
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and m….
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real..
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition..
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths….
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring thes….
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional l….
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a….
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operat….
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression..
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experien….
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control..
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not ….