The later Horkheimer presents mature Critical Theory as a Jewish Negative Theology. This change carries major educational implications hegemonic critical pedagogy has not yet dared to address until now and much less in the present era of the new anti-Semitism as the meta-narrative of the progressive circles. In Horkheimer's work the change from a…

Human life begins in the middle, in the midst, and sometimes in the darkness. Or even in the woods. In the woods--you're in the middle and if you are always in the middle there is no home, or refuge or cave--a sure space that you have access to. It means then that the best we can do is to somehow try to strengthen our armor on the Socratic…