Science alienates itself from living practice and loses its critical force by becoming neutralized.

Evidence

For the sake of achieving some form of neutral practicability, science has been alienated from living practice into becoming pure theory, and is continuing to alienate itself. It distorts its own critical sources by entrusting its results to bodies alien to science which can make arbitrary use of them … Finally, we must note that the failures from which university reform has suffered from the very beginning, without ever basically being able to overcome them, owe their persistence to a society which is making its remotest outposts `scientific’ while at the same time neutralizing science to such an extent that it has ceased to be a catalyst of life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 574

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that society simultaneously scientizes its furthest outposts and neutralizes science into a non-catalyst of life is a compact causal paradox worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Science became a productive force and ideology while its reflective disciplines were marginalized. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.; Scientific objectification of subjects serves a fear of change, not neutrality. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 312 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Science became a productive force and ideology while its reflective disciplines were marginalized. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746; Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.; Scientific objectification of subjects serves a fear of change, not neutrality. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 312 (+4 more)