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Critical Theory
A city trembles. Flags rise. Radios crackle with new voices. And in the lecture halls and streets of nineteen twenties Germany, the old tools of philosophy seem to splinter beneath the weight of real events. What happens when reason itself is enlisted in the service of oppression?In the aftermath of the First World War, Europe’s great promises—of progress, of science, of political reform—feel strangely hollow. Marxists debate historical necessity; liberals look to gradual reform; scientists trust in neutral methods. Yet all around them, democracy wobbles, fascism marches, and violence claims…
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