The First Discipline Modernity's Originators Imposed Upon

Self-interest Is Hostile To The Common Good, But Enlightened Self-interest Is Not. And This Is The Best Key To The Meaning Of Enlightenment.

The Most Important Function Of The University In An Age Of Reason Is To Protect Reason From Itself.

Locke Had Illegitimately Selected Those Parts Of Man He Needed For His Social Contract And Suppressed All The Rest, A Theoretically Unsatisfactory Procedure And A Practically Costly One. The Bourgeois Is The Measure Of The Price Paid, He Who Most Of All Cannot Afford To Look To His Real Self, Who Denies The Existence Of The Thinly Boarded-over Basement In Him, Who Is Most Made Over For The Purposes Of A Society That Does Not Even Promise Him Perfection Or Salvation But Merely Buys Him Off.

A New Language Always Reflects A New Point Of View, And The Gradual Unconscious Popularization Of New Words, Or Of Old Words Used In New Ways, Is A Sure Sign Of A Profound Change In People's Articulation Of The World.

[rock And The Intellectual Left] Must Both Be Interpreted As Parts Of The Cultural Fabric Of Late Capitalism. Their Success Comes From The Bourgeois' Need To Feel That He Is Not Bourgeois.