A Critique of the New Commonplaces. Uniform Exégèse Des Nouveaux Lieux Communs. English

New York: Knopf, 1968. 1st American ed. Small quarto in white jacket; vii, 303 pages 22 cm; bibliographical references. Fine in near fine jacket in archival mylar. A crisp copy. Hardcover. ISBN:

Translation of: Exégèse des nouveaux communs. ¶ Contents: The commonplaces -- We must follow the current of history -- You can't act without getting your hands dirty -- The main thing is to be sincere with yourself -- Peoples have the right to self-determination -- The people have come of age -- Modern man has come of age -- You can't make a people revolt against its will -- Politics first! -- From personal democracy to organized (or mass) democracy -- Public interest comes before private interest -- Nobody can help anybody else -- We have been deceived -- If all the good guys in the world -- Work is freedom -- Women find their freedom (dignity) in work -- No freedom for the enemies of freedom -- Freedom is obeying necessity -- The spiritual side of life cannot develop until the standard of living is raised -- No more words: give us acts! -- Anyway, it's a fact! -- You can't make art out of noble sentiments -- Anyone who says he is neither a rightest nor a leftist is a rightist -- Its sacred -- The machine is a neutral object and man is its master -- It is fashionable to criticize technology -- All science is numerical -- One must take a positive attitude -- There are one billion illiterates -- You are what you are -- Cultivate your personality: be a person! -- Make way for youth! -- We don't want charity: we want justice -- The end justifies the means.

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