Mervyn wrote: *** Theodor Adorno speaks of the tendency towards occultism or spiritualism in late capitalism - a system with a 'veiled tendency ... towards disaster' - as a symptom of a general 'regression in consciousness' and as 'an unconscious projection of a subject decomposing historically if not clinically'.
How I wonder would Adorno have accounted for the tendency towards occultism in say the slave mode of production? or feudalism? or mercantilism? or "non-late" capitalism?
Deeply puzzled
Gary
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