The Truth Of Art Lies

The Avant-garde And The Beatniks Share In The Function Of Entertaining Without Endangering The Good Conscience Of The Men Of Good Will.

The Judgment That Human Life Is Worth Living, Or Rather Can And Ought To Be Made Worth Living, ... Underlies All Intellectual Effort; It Is The A Priori Of Social Theory, And Its Rejection (which Is Perfectly Logical) Rejects Theory Itself.

Where These Reduced (operational - E.w.) Concepts Govern The Analysis Of The Human Reality, Individual Or Social, Mental Or Material, They Arrive At A False Concreteness - A Concreteness Isolated From The Conditions Which Constitute Its Reality. In This Context, The Operational Treatment Of The Concept Assumes A Political Function. The Individual And His Behavior Are Analyzed In A Therapeutic Sense - Adjustment To His Society. Thought And Expression, Theory And Practice Are To Be Brought In Line With The Facts Of His Existence Without Leaving Room For The Conceptual Critique Of These Facts.

The Philosopher ... Subjects Experience To His Critical Judgment, And This Contains A Value Judgment Namely, That Freedom From Toil Is Preferable To Toil, And An Intelligent Life Is Preferable To A Stupid Life. It So Happened That Philosophy Was Born With These Values. Scientific Thought Had To Break This Union Of Value Judgment And Analysis, For It Became Increasingly Clear That The Philosophic Values Did Not Guide The Organisation Of Society.

Entertainment And Learning Are Not Opposites; Entertainment May Be The Most Effective Mode Of Learning.