Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination
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Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination ... Scott Alexander May 29, 2026 708 682 106 Share The philosophers of the Frankfurt School practiced a technique called negative dialectics, where concepts are defined as much by what you can’t say about them as what you can . Appropriately, the Frankfurt School has ended up defined by what you can’t say about them. You can’t say that they invented a new form of left-wing thought called Cultural Marxism. This would be (according to Wikipedia) the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory , a “far right anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that misinterprets Western
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