Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 19, 1898 Death: June 29, 1979
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognit….
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation..
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination..
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality….
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at ….
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production..
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself..
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in….
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to ….
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual ….
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced de….
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order, which should not and indeed did not di….
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this….
Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced ….
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation ….
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not onl….
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daught….
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative..
The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust..
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology..
That which is cannot be true..