'it was not merely standardization as such that established an inverse relationship between the commercialization of cultural goods and their complexity, but that special preparation of products that made them consumption ready, which is to say, guaranteed an enjoyment without being tied to stringent presuppositions....
'however, the revolution (in france, note by me) itself combined the two sundered functions of public opinion, the critical and the legislative. the constitution of 1791 joined the principle of popular sovereignty with that of the parliamentary constitutional state, which provided a constitutional guarantee for...
back with habermas, because we're slowing down and need to pick up. 'Rousseau's democracy of unpublic opinion ultimately postulated the manipulative exercise of power. the general will was always right, the notorious passage stated, but the judgment that guided it was not always enlightened. it was...