One Will Only Be Free

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

The Tangible Source Of Exploitation Disappears Behind The Façade Of Objective Rationality.

Under The Rule Of A Repressive Whole, Liberty Can Be Made Into A Powerful Instrument Of Domination.

The Society Which Projects And Undertakes The Technological Transformation Of Nature Alters The Base Of Domination By Gradually Replacing Personal Dependence (of The Slave On The Master, The Serf On The Lord Of The Manor, The Lord On The Donor Of The Fief, Etc.) With Dependence On The "objective Order Of Things" (on Economic Laws, The Market Etc.).

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.