Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dis… - Theodor W. Adorno

" "
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Theodor W. Adorno

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist and composer.

Also Known As

Native Name: Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno

Alternative Names: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno • Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno • Theodor Wiesengrund • Teodor V. Adorno • Theodore W. Adorno • Theodor Adorno • Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Adorno • Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund • Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund • Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wellington

All quotes from Theodor W. Adorno Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Theodor W. Adorno:

Herbert Marcuse Richard M. Weaver Russell Jacoby Alfred North Whitehead Slavoj Žižek

Additional quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… - Theodor W. Adorno

About Theodor W. Adorno

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Theodor W. Adorno