{"id":7805,"date":"2010-01-26T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:43:34","slug":"more-from-frye-on-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/26\/more-from-frye-on-relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Frye on Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7812\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/herbert-marcuse.jpg\" alt=\"herbert-marcuse\" width=\"403\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/herbert-marcuse.jpg 576w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/herbert-marcuse-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Herbert Marcuse<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frye on Zweckwissenschaft:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One main theme of Part Three is: the N-S axis of concern is revolutionary, &amp; the W-E one is liberal, not speculative, but simply broadening &amp; enlarging. Revolutionary characteristics are: the enforced loyalty of a minority group (Jews, early Christians); belief in a unique historical revelation; resistance to \u201crevisionism\u201d; establishment of a rigorous canon of myth; rejection of knowledge for its own sake (demand for relevance or Zweckwissenschaft). Judaism was the only revolutionary monotheism produced in the ancient world, and Christianity inherited the characteristics that made<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tacitus_on_Christ\"> Tacitus<\/a> scream &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Aurelius\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Aurelius<\/a> talk about their <em>parataxis<\/em> [sheer obstinacy].<\/p>\n<p>(The \u201cThird Book\u201d Notebooks, Notebook 12, par. 304)<\/p>\n<p>A certain amount of contemporary agitation seems to be beating the track of the \u201cthink with your blood\u201d exhortations of the Nazis a generation ago, for whom also \u201crelevance\u201d (Zweckwissenschaft, u.s.w.) was a constant watchword. Such agitation aims, consciously or unconsciously, at a closed myth of concern, which is thought of as already containing all the essential answers, at least potentially, so that it contains the power of veto over scholarship and imagination. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Marcuse\" target=\"_blank\">Marcuse<\/a>\u2019s notion of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcuse.org\/herbert\/pubs\/60spubs\/65repressivetolerance.htm\" target=\"_blank\">repressive tolerance<\/a>,\u201d that concerned issues have a right and a wrong side, and that those who are simply right need not bother tolerating those who are merely wrong, is typical of the kind of hysteria that an age like ours throws up. That age is so precariously balanced, however, that a closed myth can only maintain a static tyranny until it is blown to pieces, either externally in war or internally through the explosion of what it tries to suppress.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>The Critical Path<\/em>, 155)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Marcuse Frye on Zweckwissenschaft: One main theme of Part Three is: the N-S axis of concern is revolutionary, &amp; the W-E one is liberal, not speculative, but simply broadening &amp; enlarging. 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