“The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.”

—  Herbert Marcuse, book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 147

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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