The Institute’s posture denied certainty about the Absolute while insisting on truth’s authority.
Evidence
Reflecting on political systems taught us rather that it was necessary, as Adorno has expressed it, “not to think of claims to the Absolute as certain and yet, not to deduct anything from the appeal to the emphatic concept of the truth.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 68
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Captures the core epistemological stance of critical theory: rejecting dogmatic absolutes without surrendering truth claims.