Source: CounterPunch
by David S D’Amato
“We lack the tools to critically assess and interrogate our social institutions and our ways of thinking about and interacting with them. That is among the core claims of a new book by Michael J. Thompson, a professor of political theory at William Paterson University and a practicing psychoanalyst. In The Descent of the Dialectic, published earlier this year, Thompson argues that in our age of all-penetrating relativism and the ‘drastic decline of critical thought in Western culture,’ we must attempt to put an objective ethics grounded in critical theory back on firm footing.” (12/20/24)