"The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that betw…"

"The idea of critical theory, in the context of the history of marxism, is usually associated with the Frankfurt Schoo…"

"For the Romantics and for speculative philosophy, ... to be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all rest…"

"A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what ki…"

"When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes …"

"Instead of ideologically synchronizing contradictions, or assigning them to separate halls of the academy, critical t…"

"The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our o…"

"In high industrial civilization, ... the “inner” dimension of the mind in which opposition to the status quo can take…"

"If the progressing rationality of advanced industrial society tends to liquidate, as an “irrational rest,” the distur…"

"The philosopher will ask himself … if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the …"