A socialized public sphere promises a genuinely private sphere freed from labor.

Evidence

Rather, the autonomous public, through the planned shaping of a state that became absorbed into society, secured for itself (as composed of private persons) a sphere of personal freedom, leisure, and freedom of movement. … In this sphere, the informal and personal interaction of human beings with one another would have been emancipated for the first time from the constraints of social labor (ever a realm of necessity') and become really private’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 586

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the entailment: state absorbed into society lets the autonomous public carve out a real private realm by contrast with labor’s ‘realm of necessity’.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal power works so invisibly that the subject believes it is free — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 44; The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; The liberal public sphere is necessarily structured by power, not merely imperfect — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 897 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Neoliberal power works so invisibly that the subject believes it is free — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 44; The bourgeois public sphere’s defining institutions embodied a demand for their own abolition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585; The liberal public sphere is necessarily structured by power, not merely imperfect — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 897 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal domination works by making subjects act on themselves and call it freedom #complicates (0.76) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 69
• Neoliberal power works so invisibly that the subject believes it is free #complicates (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 44
• The liberal public sphere is necessarily structured by power, not merely imperfect #complicates (0.74) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 897
• Expanding the personal protected sphere lets tradition recolonize formerly democratic space #complicates (0.74) — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 172
• A society functionally merged with the state serves public purposes while privatizing citizens’ consciousness. #complicates (0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 577
• Real longing for freedom is functionalized and sold back to people #complicates (0.73) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 260
• Marx maintains inequality and unfreedom are inherent realizations of exchange-based freedom. #complicates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 804