Philosophy and art can dissolve only jointly in a liberated society

Evidence

Endorsing mediacy against immediacy is a proscribed move—but the wager of this chapter and of this book has been that theory and aesthetic production must be impelled by their own essential and definitive promise of departure: theory moves away from mere context, speculatively moving beyond reflexive cognition, propulsively moving against the merely extant; art and literature generate more than what is already given, speculatively proposing other worlds, other words, propulsively suspending ordinary ratiocination. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 325 (#expands, via linked claim)

One of the respects in which worlds, and various forms within the same world, differ from one another is how near or how far they bring objects to the individual. It is characteristic of the worlds of philosophy and art to present the outlines of things at a much greater distance than do the worlds of science and praxis. Among the sciences, different disciplines look at things from different distances. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 80 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Science and art converge into ideology when their separation is absolutized; Theory and art must depart from context rather than dissolve into immediacy — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 325; Philosophy and art hold objects at greater distance than science does — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 80 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Science and art converge into ideology when their separation is absolutized #qualifies (0.80)
• Theory and art must depart from context rather than dissolve into immediacy #expands (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 325
• Philosophy and art hold objects at greater distance than science does #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 80
• Art expresses utopian harmony negatively by embodying contradictions unresolved #corroborates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 549