Domination falsely separated scientific reason from aesthetic reason

Evidence

The rationality of domination has separated the Reason of science and the Reason of art, or, it has falsified the Reason of art by integrating art into the universe of domination. It was a separation because, from the beginning, science contained the aesthetic Reason, the free play and even the folly of imagination, the fantasy of transformation; science indulged in the rationalization of possibilities. However, this free play retained the commitment to the prevailing unfreedom in which it was born and from which it abstracted; the possibilities with which science played were also those of liberation—of a higher truth. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 805

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘aesthetic Reason’ and the false separation of science from art as a product of domination.
• XREF: Bridges to the reader’s trees-as-infrastructure piece: the imaginative/liberatory dimension of technics that domination strips out. — connects to: Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826; A rationality geared to domination shapes how we construe the Other — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 464; Kant’s sublime theory is complicit with domination (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Scientific rationalism becomes an instrument of social domination #expands (0.90) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 141
• A rationality geared to domination shapes how we construe the Other #expands (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 464
• Kant’s sublime theory is complicit with domination #exemplifies (0.85)
• Early race theorists justified domination by a mind-versus-body hierarchy #exemplifies (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 141