Thought can reverse the historical drift from objective to subjective reason.

Evidence

At the last moment, thought felt its way back along the path through which objective reason had been overcome by subjective reasonback along the path of subjectivization, formalization, instrumentalization, desubstantiation of natureand asserted itself, as an organ of nature, against the instruments of the self-glorifying intellect. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 372

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Eclipse of Reason sequence — subjectivization, formalization, instrumentalization, desubstantiation — restated as a path one can walk back along. — connects to: Historical-evolutionary criticism reorders present perception by politicizing thought about the past — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 23; The inevitability of history is an illusion of hindsight rather than real determinism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 216; Being past turns subjective states into thing-like objective facts (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Historical-evolutionary criticism reorders present perception by politicizing thought about the past — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 23; The inevitability of history is an illusion of hindsight rather than real determinism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 216; Being past turns subjective states into thing-like objective facts (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Categorical thinking also protects existing views from frequent revision #complicates (0.76) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1149
• Ideologies apply the logic of an idea to history as an unfolding process. #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1061