Intelligence Is A Moral Category.

In The Age Of The Individual's Liquidation, The Question Of Individuality Must Be Raised Anew.

The Poor Are Prevented From Thinking By The Discipline Of Others, The Rich By Their Own.

Art Is The Social Antithesis Of Society, Not Directly Deducible From It.

Cultural Criticism Finds Itself Faced With The Final Stage Of The Dialectic Of Culture And Barbarism. To Write Poetry After Auschwitz Is Barbaric. And This Corrodes Even The Knowledge Of Why It Has Become Impossible To Write Poetry Today. Absolute Reification, Which Presupposed Intellectual Progress As One Of Its Elements, Is Now Preparing To Absorb The Mind Entirely. Critical Intelligence Cannot Be Equal To This Challenge As Long As It Confines Itself To Self-satisfied Contemplation.

It Is Barbaric To Write Poetry After Auschwitz.