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Science and Insight Horkheimer wrote, in June 1968, that positive science was instrumental and functional (Horkheimer 1988a:487– ...

Negative Notion of the Truth According to Horkheimer, the critical theorists of society were able to say what was not true (Hork ...

not allowed to move into the world of the thing in itself – God, Freedom and Immortality. For Kant, God as well as Freedom and I ...

native Future I – a purely instrumentally and functionally administered soci- ety, in which the needs could be lived out without ...

the totally Other, the Truth – of which the positivists have not the slightest inkling. Longing for Light In January 1970, Horkh ...

Max Horkheimer Psalm 91^1 1] “You who sit under the shelter of the Most High and remain under the shadow of the Almighty, 2] who ...

11] Because the Lord has ordered his angels over you to protect you on all your paths, 12] that they will carry you on their han ...

the name of God served again and again as the pretext for injustice, for mas- sive failures and mass murder. “Deus vult – God wi ...

barbarians, to the torture chambers, to the funeral pile. However, rather than renounce the love, exuberance, and praise of God, ...

its own unsubstantial nullity.”^2 Hegel continues “we have to marvel at the force of the elevation of the mind which abandons ev ...

liberate him.” After what has happened in the present, to say the words “I liberate him” can only be understood as not being a b ...

Michael R. Ott The Notion of the Totally “Other” and its Consequence in the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice ...

paradigm of the entire Rational Choice Theory itself, but particularly in its application to the sociological study of religion, ...

the interests of those who have the power to control and manipulate the other. Individuals are no longer seen as subjects or “en ...

“methodological individualism” of the rational choice theory, and its level- ing of all forms of reason and praxis to a strategi ...

Such capitalist class dominance of civil society in the service of its own interests also is the essence of the neo-liberal/neo- ...

(Spickard 1998). Within this framework, religion is treated as merely one of the many “economies” functioning within capitalist ...

The Abstract Negation of the “Other” Although a broader and historical focus can be found in the later work of Rodney Stark (200 ...

and “Becoming,” dogmatism and radicalism, stasis and metanoia, the capital- ist class and the working, or better stated, “under” ...

also has no real future, other than the progress of what already is. In this, there is no future or anything new. The mythical e ...