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I Would Simply Ask Why So Many Critics, So Many Writers, So Many Philosophers Take Such Satisfaction In Professing That The Experience Of A Work Of Art Is Ineffable, That It Escapes By Definition All Rational Understanding; Why Are They So Eager To Concede Without A Struggle The Defeat Of Knowledge; And Where Does Their Irrepressible Need To Belittle Rational Understanding Come From, This Rage To Affirm The Irreducibility Of The Work Of Art, Or, To Use A More Suitable Word, Its Transcendence.

The Most Successful Ideological Effects Are Those Which Have No Need For Words, And Ask No More Than Complicitous Silence.

The Point Of My Work Is To Show That Culture And Education Arent Simply Hobbies Or Minor Influences. They Are Hugely Important In The Affirmation Of Differences Between Groups And Social Classes And In The Reproduction Of Those Differences.

Practice Has A Logic Which Is Not That Of The Logician.

The Function Of Sociology, As Of Every Science, Is To Reveal That Which Is Hidden.