A Work Of Art Can Be Called

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.

Free Election Of Masters Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves. Free Choice Among A Wide Variety Of Goods And Services Does Not Signify Freedom If These Goods And Services Sustain Social Controls Over A Life Of Toil And Fear – That Is, If They Sustain Alienation. And The Spontaneous Reproduction Of Superimposed Needs By The Individual Does Not Establish Autonomy; It Only Testifies To The Efficacy Of The Controls.

The Psychoanalytic Liberation Of Memory Explodes The Rationality Of The Repressed Individual. As Cognition Gives Way To Re-cognition, The Forbidden Images And Impulses Of Childhood Begin To Tell The Truth That Reason Denies.

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.

That Which Is Cannot Be True.