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Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.
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Multiculturalism is not the opposite of assimilation, but its product.
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Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.
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The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.
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The sundering of a scientific from a poetic truth is the primal mark of the administrative mind.
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The child ego, once nurtured and scarred by the family is no longer nurtured but simply integrated.
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In accepting the bourgeois form of reason as Reason itself, Roszak does his bit to perpetuate its reign.
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Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rules unchallenged; to be transcended it must first be remembered.
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Multiculturalism relies on an intellectual rout, the refusal or inability to address what makes up a culture.
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The professional philosopher in keen competition with the natural scientist resolves to be more certain about less.
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Once upon a time leftists and radicals talked of liberation or the abolition of work. Now the talk is about full employment.
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The story of the rise, fall, and forgetting of the individual is the tale of the rise, fall, and repression of psychoanalysis.
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Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inability to think.
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David Bromwich has wondered whether intellectuals today would oppose an economic slavery if it lacked any racial or cultural dimension.
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As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud's book, it evinces the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.
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The individual, before it can determine itself, is determined by the relations in which it is enmeshed. It is a fellow-being before it is a being.
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Instead of ideologically synchronizing contradictions, or assigning them to separate halls of the academy, critical theory seeks to articulate them.
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Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of on the one hand and the other but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source.
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The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.
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Though the ancient world understood that work was a curse, modern industrial society spreads its gospel. The working class, Lafargue hopelessly hoped, must reject the work fetish.
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Those seeking to work out the relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis have not been immune to the intellectual division of labor that severs the life nerve of dialectical thought.
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As Comte wrote, the task of positivism was to imbue the people with the feeling that … no political change is of real importance. … As Marx wrote, to it everything that exists is an authority.
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In the name of a new theory past theory is declared honorable but feeble; one can lay aside Freud and Marx—or appreciate their limitations—and pick up the latest at the drive-in window of thought.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Russell Jacoby
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April 23, 1945
(age 78)
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