The Point Of My Work

Every Established Order Tends To Produce The Naturalization Of Its Own Arbitrariness.

If The Sociologist Has A Role, It Is Probably More To Furnish Weapons Than To Give Lessons.

I Would Simply Ask Why So Many Critics, So Many Writers, So Many Philosophers Take Such Satisfaction In Professing That The Experience Of A Work Of Art Is Ineffable, That It Escapes By Definition All Rational Understanding; Why Are They So Eager To Concede Without A Struggle The Defeat Of Knowledge; And Where Does Their Irrepressible Need To Belittle Rational Understanding Come From, This Rage To Affirm The Irreducibility Of The Work Of Art, Or, To Use A More Suitable Word, Its Transcendence.

Unless Saved By Exceptional Talent, He Necessarily Pays The Price Of Clarity.

I Often Say That Sociology Is A Martial Art, A Means Of Self-defense. Basically, You Use It To Defend Yourself, Without Having The Right To Use It For Unfair Attacks.