哲学有什么用？

"When the power of synthesis", Hegel remarks, "vanishes from the lives of men and when the antitheses have lost their vital relation and their power of interaction and gain independence, it is then that philosophy becomes a felt need."
选自Die Differenz des Fichteschen und Schellingschen Systems费希特与谢林体系的差异（耶拿时期著作）, Werke I, p. 174. 卢卡奇对这里的批评是这句话仍在理论的范围内打转。这一节后半部是以艺术为例，试图阐述黑格尔、谢林等人如何解决艺术领域的主体自由和决定论的矛盾，常见的结果是滑向对神秘主观体验的强调。