Rubber Soul, Habermas

"A parallel to the surrealist mistakes becomes visible in these programs when one observes the consequences of dogmatism and of moral rigorism." (105)

I think Habermas adds to the point I was making in my last blog, about these societal ideologies that are limiting individuals and perceived as the only way of thinking. Lyotard says we need to wage a war on them, but Habermas says that there are consequences in social movements that negate philosophy based on the modes of dogmatism and moral rigorism. He goes on to say, "Reification cannot be overcome by forcing just one of those highly stylized cultural spheres to open up and become more accessible." (105) Habermas thinks that the reception of art might offer an alternative for a way out of the "administrative terror" and "coercive means of modern bureaucracies." Our society is so concerned with specialists in the cultural spheres of science, morality, and art. Validity is determined by these special experts and the public is left far from the culture that should be available to everyone. Habermas says "With cultural rationalization of this sort, the threat increases that the life-world, whose traditional substance has already been devalued, will become more and more impoverished." (103)