Liberating Tolerance, Then, Would Mean

The World Of Immediate Experience The World In Which We Find Ourselves Living Must Be Comprehended, Transformed, Even Subverted In Order To Become That Which It Really Is.

The Intellectual Is Called On The Carpet... Don't You Conceal Something? You Talk A Language Which Is Suspect. You Don't Talk Like The Rest Of Us, Like The Man In The Street, But Rather Like A Foreigner Who Does Not Belong Here. We Have To Cut You Down To Size, Expose Your Tricks, Purge You.

This Organization Of Functional Discourse Is Of Vital Importance; It Serves As A Vehicle Of Coordination And Subordination. The Unified, Functional Language Is An Irreconcilably Anti-critical And Anti-dialectical Language. In It, Operational And Behavioral Rationality Absorbs The Transcendent, Negative, Oppositional Elements Of Reason.

Dialectical Thought Understands The Critical Tension Between "is" And "ought" First As An Ontological Condition, Pertaining To The Structure Of Being Itself. However, The Recognition Of This State Of Being Its Theory Intends From The Beginning A Concrete Practice. Seen In The Light Of A Truth Which Appears In Them Falsified Or Denied, The Given Facts Themselves Appear False And Negative.

It Is Generally Admitted That The Cultural Values (humanization) And The Existing Institutions And Policies Of Society Are Rarely,if Ever, In Harmony. This Opinion Has Found Expression In The Distinction Between Culture And Civilization, According To Which "culture" Refers To Some Higher Dimension Of Human Autonomy And Fulfillment, While "civilization" Designates The Realm Of Necessity, Of Socially Necessary Work And Behavior, Where Man Is Not Really Himself And In His Own Element But Is Subject To Heteronomy, To External Conditions And Needs.