Operational concepts perform a political function by inducing adjustment to society
Evidence
Where these reduced concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness—a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense—adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 427
Categorization
- XREF: This is the core thesis bridging to the attention economy: how administrative/operational framing preempts critique. Maps directly onto the reader’s stated purpose of connecting to attention/consumption economics. — connects to: Operational concepts terminate in improved methods of social control — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 431; Philosophy functions as a practical instrument for political organizing; Operational concepts miss the determining facts and thereby sustain ideology — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 460 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Philosophy functions as a practical instrument for political organizing
#expands(0.85) - Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification
#corroborates(0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819 - Operational concepts miss the determining facts and thereby sustain ideology
#complicates(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 460 - Law functions to reconstruct society, not merely reflect it
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