Powers of negation

The overall observation when confronting the Frankfurt school is that theory had to give up the endeavour to change the world by transforming itself into practice.

In Tony Bennett’s words, «theory’s purpose was not to change the world but to oppose to the world its powers of negation, to refuse to confer on it a Hegelian consecration of the rationality of its reality» (1982, p. 46).

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