Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created… - Theodor W. Adorno

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements

The conflicts that tear society apart resemble the distinction between the concept and the particular facts subordinated to it. ... Whatever refuses to abide by the unity imposed by the principle of dominion manifests itself not as something indifferent to that principle, but as an infringement of logic: as a contradiction.