Sublime

under

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

There, she argued that the question of the relationship between our physical constraints and the assertion of our freedom is not a ‘problem’ requiring a solution. It is simply the way human beings are. Our condition is to be ambiguous to the core, and our task is to learn to manage the movement and uncertainty in our existence, not to banish it.

socially necessary.

‘Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by want and illusion.’

he takes a much keener interest in the concrete institutional structure of democratic society than either Horkheimer or Adorno.

Martin Heidegger.