Philosophy (out of the stacks)












Knowledge and Human Interests
Jurgen Habermas
Beacon, 1971
121 H114k

""The development of fixed capital indicates the extent to which general social knowledge has become an immediate force of production..." (Marx, Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Okinomie)

So far as production establishes the only framework in which the genesis and function of knowledge can be interpreted, the science of man also appears under categories of knowledge for control..."
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Benjamin on the Novel vs Storytelling- Information - the novel-information as debased

 From the storyteller:  [this was written in the 1930s, amazing] Every morning, news reaches us, from around the globe.  And yet we lack rem...