In The Realm Of Culture, The New

The Precarious Ontological Link Between Logos And Eros Is Broken, And Scientific Rationality Emerges As Essentially Neutral.

Institutionalized Desublimation Thus Appears To Be An Aspect Of The "conquest Of Transcendence" Achieved By The One-dimensional Society. Just As This Society Tends To Reduce, And Even Absorb Opposition (the Qualitative Difference!) In The Realm Of Politics And Higher Culture, So It Does In The Instinctual Sphere. The Result Is The Atrophy Of The Mental Organs For Grasping The Contradictions And The Alternatives And, In The One Remaining Dimension Of Technological Rationality, The Happy Consciousness Comes To Prevail.

Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is No Thought At All.

Precisely Because Galilean Science Is, In The Formation Of Its Concepts, The Technic Of A Specific Lebenswelt , It Does Not And Cannot Transcend This Lebenswelt . It Remains Essentially Within The Basic Experiential Framework And Within The Universe Of Ends Set By This Reality.

Contemporary Industrial Society Is Now Characterised More Than Ever By "the Need For Stupefying Work Where It Is No Longer A Real Necessity."