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..."

Schopenhauer primordial sin

  There is nothing more certain than the general truth that it is the grievous sin of the world which has produced the grievous suffering of...