Behind The Aesthetic Form Lies The Repressed

The Way In Which A Society Organizes The Life Of Its Members ... Is One "project" Of Realization Among Others. But Once The Project Has Become Operative In The Basic Institutions And Relations, It Tends To Become Exclusive And To Determine The Development Of The Society As A Whole.

Behind The Aesthetic Form Lies The Repressed Harmony Of Sensuousness And Reason

Hypostatized Into A Ritual Pattern, Marxian Theory Becomes Ideology. But Its Content And Function Distinguish It From Classical Forms Of Ideology; It Is Not False Consciousness, But A Rather Consciousness Of Falsehood, A Falsehood Which Is Corrected In The Context Of The Higher Truth Represented By The Objective Historical Interest.

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

That Which Is Cannot Be True.