Canonical status entrenches through continued critical response

Evidence

[The] canonicity [of a work] will become more and more entrenched as long as it continues to elicit responses, if only dissident or negative ones, in the subsequent development of the discipline to which it belongs. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 355

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Critical Theory achieved canonical academic status after its political hopes stalled — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 29