Academic canonization may domesticate critical theory’s radical edge

Evidence

That such “success” may well pay tribute to the domesticating power of the cultural apparatus of capitalism cannot be denied, but only those who assume marginality is by itself and in all conditions a self-evident virtue could fail to acknowledge a certain benefit. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 30

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Despite brevity this articulates a genuinely productive tension: that a radical school’s institutional success both proves and threatens its critical function, without sliding into naive either/or.
• XREF: connects to: Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257; Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning; Academic institutionalization can eliminate productive theoretical tension (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory #corroborates (0.97) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257
• Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning #corroborates (0.97)
• Academic institutionalization can eliminate productive theoretical tension #corroborates (0.90)