![]() The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.įeuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence. ![]()
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