Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism Ahmed Saladdin
Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism Ahmed Saladdin Great critical theorists from Marx and Engels to Adorno and Horkheimer not only came from the margins…
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Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism Ahmed Saladdin
Great critical theorists from Marx and Engels to Adorno and Horkheimer not only came from the margins but also stayed faithful to the plight of the marginalized. From Marx to Benjamin, critical philosophers who showed fidelity to the cause were denied a career in European universities and made impoverished, stateless, and homeless. They refused to compromise about the struggle for equality and tried to universalize its emancipatory essence.
Critical Theory from the Margins, however, revives the Critical Theory that endorses criticism, aiming to negate dominant regimes of truth. Marginalization and critical theory are inseparable; yet, today, Marxism is institutionalized, and the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory is gentrified. It is unapologetic in its fidelity to the universalist struggles of the minoritized.
In that spirit, Saladdin Ahmed shows that capitalism imposes a