birth of materialistic killing of god with feuerbach super-sexy! remember moment when this was presented to me at a-level phil of religion.. "Fb suggests that human's may just be imagining god.. enabling Freud.. enabling Jung"- first thought "so much more likely than any of the more elaborate plots i've been exposed to.. its just so obviously correct!" imaginge the moment it ocurred to him.. fucking don.. especially by the retrospectively applied measures of KM, who had to fix "essence bit" for social transformative applicability, i.e. add the historical. ding dong!
its funny that marx then goes on to make the ideas -> praxis link explicitely and positively, whilst he seemingly fails to recognise the negative side of implicit relations in development of ideas -> discourse -> praxis (eg. theology pre-feuerbach).
re: sensuous activity
consider that the question of epistemology returns at the level of social reproduction with the investigations into knowledge production and ideology (cf h'mas re: marx naive acceptance of positivist science!)-> therefore introducing an episteme of social praxis.
"If Marx had not thrown together interaction and work under the label of social practice (Praxis), and had he instead related the materialist concept of synthesis likewise to the accomplishments of instrumental action and the nexuses of communicative action, then the idea of a science of man would not have been obscured by identification with natural science. Rather, this idea would have taken up Hegel's critique of the subjectivism of Kant's epistemology and surpassed it materialistically. It would have made clear that ultimately a radical critique of knowledge can be carried out only in the form of a reconstruction of the history of the species, and that conversely social theory, from the viewpoint of the self-constitution of the species in the medium of social labour and class struggle, is possible only as the self-reflection of the knowing subject."
which brings us to that other great pillar, scifaith..
re: opium and seemingly anti-systemic patterns
"Outside the academic establishment, the "far-reaching change in all our habits of thought" is more serious. It serves to coordinate ideas and goals with those exacted by the prevailing system, to enclose them in the system, and to repel those which are irreconcilable with the system. The reign of such a one-dimensional reality does not mean that materialism rules, and that the spiritual, metaphysical, and bohemian occupations are petering out. On the contrary, there is a great deal of "Worship together this week," "Why not try God", Zen, existentialism, and beat ways of life, etc. But such modes of protest and transcendence are no longer contradictory to the status quo and no longer negative. They are rather the ceremonial part of practical behaviorism, its harmless negation, and are quickly digested by the status quo as part of its healthy diet."
marcuse one-dimensional man
i.e. it's even good for sys to have seeming opposing forces going.. cf 1984 and collab of minitruth with anti-front!
its funny that marx then goes on to make the ideas -> praxis link explicitely and positively, whilst he seemingly fails to recognise the negative side of implicit relations in development of ideas -> discourse -> praxis (eg. theology pre-feuerbach).
re: sensuous activity
consider that the question of epistemology returns at the level of social reproduction with the investigations into knowledge production and ideology (cf h'mas re: marx naive acceptance of positivist science!)-> therefore introducing an episteme of social praxis.
"If Marx had not thrown together interaction and work under the label of social practice (Praxis), and had he instead related the materialist concept of synthesis likewise to the accomplishments of instrumental action and the nexuses of communicative action, then the idea of a science of man would not have been obscured by identification with natural science. Rather, this idea would have taken up Hegel's critique of the subjectivism of Kant's epistemology and surpassed it materialistically. It would have made clear that ultimately a radical critique of knowledge can be carried out only in the form of a reconstruction of the history of the species, and that conversely social theory, from the viewpoint of the self-constitution of the species in the medium of social labour and class struggle, is possible only as the self-reflection of the knowing subject."
which brings us to that other great pillar, scifaith..
re: opium and seemingly anti-systemic patterns
"Outside the academic establishment, the "far-reaching change in all our habits of thought" is more serious. It serves to coordinate ideas and goals with those exacted by the prevailing system, to enclose them in the system, and to repel those which are irreconcilable with the system. The reign of such a one-dimensional reality does not mean that materialism rules, and that the spiritual, metaphysical, and bohemian occupations are petering out. On the contrary, there is a great deal of "Worship together this week," "Why not try God", Zen, existentialism, and beat ways of life, etc. But such modes of protest and transcendence are no longer contradictory to the status quo and no longer negative. They are rather the ceremonial part of practical behaviorism, its harmless negation, and are quickly digested by the status quo as part of its healthy diet."
marcuse one-dimensional man
i.e. it's even good for sys to have seeming opposing forces going.. cf 1984 and collab of minitruth with anti-front!