The Dangers of Critical Theory

The cultural criticism of Adorno and Benjamin have become increasingly important in Western academia since the 1970s. Some of critical terms can be easily appropriate to target strongmen or abstract ideas rather than directly confronting more pressing issues. The term instrumental rationality has been indiscriminately used by overburden urban use to signify everything from the most banal of unrequired law to the deepest structural inequalities. Metaphysical disputations and popularity increasingly turn the critical theory into a victim of its own success.