Critical Theory achieved canonical academic status after its political hopes stalled
Evidence
Perhaps only the alarmist Right has taken seriously the paradoxical “success” of the “long march” project, which helped fuel its often hysterical campaign against the alleged specter of “political correctness.” On the other end of the spectrum, the academization of the New Left is just as likely to be bemoaned as an emblem of political exhaustion. Whatever the truth of these interpretations,” it cannot be doubted that Critical Theory has achieved an unexpectedly secure-perhaps ironically even a canonical-status as a central theoretical impulse in contemporary academic life. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 29
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘long march through the institutions’ outcome connects directly to discussions of the 1968 student movement and Habermas in earlier chapters of this same history. — connects to: Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257; Academic canonization may domesticate critical theory’s radical edge — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 30; Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Academic canonization may domesticate critical theory’s radical edge
#expands(0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 30 - Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning
#expands(0.85) - Academic institutionalization threatens the political stakes of critical theory
#expands(0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 257 - Academic theory domesticated 1960s political dissent into textual culture
#exemplifies(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 23 - Canonical status entrenches through continued critical response
#qualifies(0.72) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 355