Herbert Marcuse Quotes
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1964, p. 166.
The first clause of the quotation was itself a quotation that was originated by the eminent British Jurist, Historian and academic--Sir Frederick Pollock. Spinoza has been as influential on intellectuals and their works as any other and is up there with Aristotle and Plato, However, while through his influence, the average person is familiar with many of his ideas, his writing is so abstract that few people can understand it with out a great intellectual effort. Baruch Spinoza has influenced thought on many areas but science, in particular, has benefited from his analyses and ideas. See Einstein's Quotation 644230.
Much of Western society, even in the 21st century has tended to distrust logic, reasonng and emperical research unless there was some kind of philosophical, religious, ethical or idological corroberation. Often science is rejected or ignored if its results do not conform with Westrern society's traditional values. Climate change and evolution are two of the more dramatic example of the continuing influence of the transcendentalists and religious fundamentalists.
Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.
