The more total society becomes, the greater the reification ... - Theodor Adorno

"The more total society becomes, the greater the reification of the mind and the more paradoxical its effort to escape reification on its own."

Theodor Adorno Philosophy

Philosopher, Social Critic German 1903–1969

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