Art Cannot Change The World, But It

Free Election Of Masters Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves.

Liberating Tolerance, Then, Would Mean Intolerance Against Movements From The Right, And Toleration Of Movements From The Left.

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.

[art] Can Speak Its Own Language Only As Long As The Images Are Alive Which Refuse And Refute The Established Order.

The Soul Contains Few Secrets And Longings Which Cannot Be Sensibly Discussed, Analyzed, And Polled. Solitude, The Very Condition Which Sustained The Individual Against And Beyond His Society, Has Become Technically Impossible. Logical And Linguistic Analysis Demonstrate That The Old Metaphysical Problems Are Illusory Problems; The Quest For The "meaning" Of Things Can Be Reformulated As The Quest For The Meaning Of Words, And The Established Universe Of Discourse And Behavior Can Provide Perfectly Adequate Criteria For The Answer.