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50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Usefulness of Western Marxism in China

I hesitate as an outsider to make any sort of serious claims. What I would hope Chinese intellectuals who find Western ideas, Western Marxist ideas in particular stimulating will do is to see them as useful in a critical way without creating a new dogma. But use the ideas in creative dialogue with the conditions in China with possibilities for let's call it a emancipatory or liberatory practice.

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