SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Great Transformation (Book), Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard
4 Dec 2017
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Critical reasoning (objective reason): as a measure, reason constructs and deconstructs (critique: reason allows us to understand what our purposes should be and what is the cost. Only those reflections about progress have truth that immerse themselves in progress and yet maintain distance . Ideological-thinking reduction to one level or point of view outside help or interference would certainly deserve to be called self-regulating : market as the myth of our time, now everything is controlled markets . The double movement : the priority of social relationships over economic relations. Man does not act so as to safeguard his individual interest in the possession of material goods; he acts so as to safeguard his social standing, his social claims. : economy before the great transformation (capitalism) development . Market society: after the great transformation,rationality becomes merely economical. : time! (fantasy of future: before the great transformation not everything had a price.
