The Truth Of Art Lies

Inasmuch As Art Preserves, With The Promise Of Happiness, The Memory Of The Goal That Failed, It Can Enter, As A 'regulative Idea,' The Desperate Struggle For Changing The World. Against All Fetishism Of The Productive Forces, Against The Continued Enslavement Of Individuals By The Objective Conditions (which Remain Those Of Domination), Art Represents The Ultimate Goal Of All Revolutions: The Freedom And Happiness Of The Individual.

The Range Of Choice Open To The Individual Is Not The Decisive Factor In Determining The Degree Of Human Freedom, But What Can Be Chosen And What Is Chosen By The Individual.

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.

The Functional Language Is A Radically Anti-historical Language: Operational Rationality Has Little Room And Little Use For Historical Reason.

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.