… Critical Theory became critical theory and then theory, moved from the old world to the new, and took its long, substantive-filled sentences with it. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer became unfashionable and again fashionable, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault filled the void and stayed, and now the “critical” oppositional gist of critical theory inhales its stimulus freely, including from Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger. What a journey …

Review of Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, Jonathan Boyarin, eds. Jews and the Ends of Theory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 

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