The only interesting ideas are heresies
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All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
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We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
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