Critical Theory - Past Present Future

<p>From its inception Critical Theory was a project that not only intended to study modern society but also to change it. Today with almost a century passed the term has acquired a life of its own and is used across the intellectual field institutionally as well geographically.</p><p><br></p><p>Thus to ask about the past present and future of Critical Theory means opening it up and exposing it to new influences. This is a consequence of the claim that theory is not outside history but must always respond to a changing present grasped in its contradictions and opened up towards other possibilities; a process that involves a constant reappraisal of what Critical Theory is today.</p>