In Writing, The Point Is Not To

You Know The Difference Between A Real Science And A Pseudoscience? A Real Science Recognizes And Accepts Its Own History Without Feeling Attacked. When You Tell A Psychiatrist His Mental Institution Came From A Lazar House, He Becomes Infuriated.

Madness Designates The Equinox Between The Vanity Of Night's Hallucinations And The Non-being Of Light's Judgments.

A Critique Is Not A Matter Of Saying That Things Are Not Right As They Are. It Is A Matter Of Pointing Out On What Kinds Of Assumptions, What Kinds Of Familiar, Unchallenged, Unconsidered Modes Of Thought The Practices That We Accept Rest.

My Role - And That Is Too Emphatic A Word - Is To Show People That They Are Much Freer Than They Feel, That People Accept As Truth, As Evidence, Some Themes Which Have Been Built Up At A Certain Moment During History, And That This So-called Evidence Can Be Criticized And Destroyed.

The Work Of An Intellectual Is Not To Mould The Political Will Of Others; It Is, Through The Analyses That He Does In His Own Field, To Re-examine Evidence And Assumptions, To Shake Up Habitual Ways Of Working And Thinking, To Dissipate Conventional Familiarities, To Re-evaluate Rules And Institutions And To Participate In The Formation Of A Political Will (where He Has His Role As Citizen To Play).