In The Realm Of Culture, The New

One Can Delineate The Domain Of Philosophy However One Likes, But In Its Search For Truth, Philosophy Is Always Concerned With Human Existence. Authentic Philosophizing Refuses To Remain At The Stage Of Knowledge […]. Care For Human Existence And Its Truth Makes Philosophy A 'practical Science' In The Deepest Sense, And It Also Leads Philosophy—and This Is The Crucial Point—into The Concrete Distress Of Human Existence.

The Judgment That Human Life Is Worth Living, Or Rather Can And Ought To Be Made Worth Living, ... Underlies All Intellectual Effort; It Is The A Priori Of Social Theory, And Its Rejection (which Is Perfectly Logical) Rejects Theory Itself.

The Sickness Of The Individual Is Ultimately Caused By And Sustained By The Sickness Of His Civilization

This Is The Pure Form Of Servitude: To Exist As An Instrument.

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.