Podcast for Social Research, Episode 67: What is Critical Theory?
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The Frankfurt School's Resistance to the Pressure to Affirm the World as It Is
The Frankfurt School speaks most directly to this tradition for me, in its resistance to the pressure to affirm the world as it is. So a lot of people here, it is about saying no. But I think the way that it says no matters, and kind of the whole proposition here, is that it's pretty likely that it's a good way of saying no. If there is in that know, some hint of that potential for rearrangement, right, regardless of whether you got that explicitly from the know itself. This might be the rejection of the opposite.
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