Introduction

Critical Theory after Frankfurt

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ID4070556
AuthorsPaul Fleming (0000-0001-8249-2544), Cecilia Sebastian (0000-0001-6009-3462)
Year2025
Volume52
Issue2
Pages1-9
Publication date2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-11793013
OpenAlexW4413372655
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This introduction to the special section "Critical Theory after Frankfurt" reflects on recent demands to reorient Frankfurt School Critical Theory in the wake of its centennial toward the critique of political economy, capitalism, colonialism, militarism, and the climate crisis. It reviews concerns that critics have raised about Jürgen Habermas's inheritance of Critical Theory, and it considers several of the alternative paths proposed for charting the Frankfurt School's future. It argues that, in place of simply reviving the Critical Theory of the 1930s and 1940s, Critical Theory's reorientation should also consider its diffuse receptions and trajectories among abolitionist, feminist, and left-wing activists and intellectuals in the United States, beginning with the student voices of 1968

Epistemology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophy

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